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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In a sharp critique of SpaceX's latest achievement, the head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, dismissed the company's historic success in catching its Starship booster as "invalid." Speaking in a press conference today, Roscosmos cheif Dmitry Rogozin was scathing of SpaceX's latest acheivement. "This is no real test! In Soviet time, we send brave dog...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As Hurrican Milton makes landfall near Tampa Bay on Florida's west coast, President Joe Biden commended the people of "America's wang" for their "remarkable self-control" during this latest tropical tempest. In a stark contrast to past storms, such as 2017's Hurricane Irma, where some Floridians were encouraged by the former President Donald Trump to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is off to Laos this evening for the ASEAN-Australia and East Asia summits — and he's glad to be going, he says. During the Prime Minister's bi-weekly content strategy conference call with The Advocate's editorial team, Mr Albanese touched on the wasted day they had in Parliament this week because he said...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The black sheep younger brother of King Charles has today been spotted discreetly dumping plastic bags of second-hand clothing out the back of the Kensington Salvation Army op-shop. Witnesses say Prince Andrew was trying to appear as unassuming as possible as he handed over his clothing donations to the old charity workers via the building's back door. As discredited as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The future of the world's biggest media empire is being fought over a Nevada courtroom this week, as Rupert Murdoch's family contest the 93-year-old media titan's current plans for succession. In the current version of the trust, all three Murdoch heirs - James, Elisabeth and Prudence - were to inherit as much control of the businesses as the oldest...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Someone has taken a shot at former US President Donald Trump this morning as he enjoyed a round of golf in Florida. Police and sheriffs in Palm Beach have apprehended a suspect after the forward party of Trump’s Secret Service detail spotted a gun barrel poking through the fence line. Secret Service agents engaged the suspect,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT British rock band Oasis are believed to be reuniting in 2024, after the rowdy brothers from Manchester reportedly ended their prickly 15-year feud. Noel and Liam Gallagher, whose debut album Definitely Maybe is 30 years old this week, have teased a string of comeback gigs next year. The British tabloids can reveal they decided to launch a £400 million ($778M...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Channel 7 have done it again! The most well regarded news organisation in the country have once again managed to blow their opposition out of the water, in the race to the big story. Not content to rest on their laurels after a big 12 months of scoops and hires, Channel 7 have just dropped a bombshell announcement...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As three continents bubble on the brink of full-scale military conflicts, and Wall Street desperately holds off on another financial crisis with white knuckles, the global news cycle is now as shocking as it is miserable. Not since the early days of the pandemic has the world been in such a state of uncertainty, with the potential of a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Swifties have reportedly conducted a coordinated strike on Islamic State targets in Northern Iraq on Friday, following the disruption of the pop star's Vienna concerts due to a foiled terror plot. This marks an unprecedented escalation in fan activism, raising questions about the potential for non-state actors to engage in military action. The attack...