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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Personal income tax will be cut by $144 billion over the next seven years in a victory for Malcolm Turnbull's government. The upper house approved the Coalition's budget promise to progressively cut income tax, with Malcolm Turnbull welcoming it as a "great day for all Australians - even the poor ones". "Every Australian will be better...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Former highway patrolman Peter Dutton has lashed out at US President Donald Trump this morning after the leader signed an executive order to end his policy of child separation and detention following unbridged global backlash. Speaking to the media this morning on our state's Sunshine Coast, Dutton said he was disappointed and angry that such...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has reportedly checked into a Utah rehab facility this week after his addiction to the shindig relapsed earlier this year. Through a band spokesman, the 55-year-old said he hopes to finally kick the addiction that's plagued him since the mid-1990s. Hello. Anthony Here. I need to be honest to my friends and family; I need...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact With half a pantry of reusable shopping bags, Stevie Milson told The Advocate she didn't need any more - so she'd be damned if she'd buy another one as long as she lived. However, the problem this afternoon was that all of her reusable are in the said pantry. But that's not going to stop the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The pilot of a high-sophisticated passenger jet says she just wants to be thanked for doing her job - just like her land-dwelling cousins. Emma Colton freely admits that she's 'just a glorified bus driver' - albeit one that shoulders more responsibility and has a greater price for error - but that hasn't stopped her...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact Coming of age during the nation's sporting halcyon days at the turn of last millennium, a Betoota Grove 27-year-old is currently experiencing what many sports fans and felt before him. The sinking feeling of crushing loss after crushing loss. While the national women's teams in nearly every sporting discipline continue to go from strength to strength, systematically...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Earlier today, a local A Current Affair reporter was sent out to Betoota Ponds to get to the bottom of a problem that's brought that community great pain. A dodgy tradesman, a plumber to be exact, has had accusations of shonkiness levelled at him by scores of local residents who say they've paid him for...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact In some breaking news out of Sydney, it has been confirmed that the Liberal Party Branch brawl stemmed from a disagreement over a famous book. The brawl in South Western Sydney last night, which resulted in police attending the premises and a man being taken to hospital, reportedly kicked off after a discussion about Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The famous 1957 novel, although ever...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact City workers at the French Quarter's new WeWork complex were subject to a very loud man today who rather than googling the answer to his query, decided to boorishly ask the room for the answer. Peter Moyra's desk is on the fourth-floor beside the cool self-serve Brooklyn Lager kegerator, so he gets to hear his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Besieged mining magnate and political hopeful, Clive Palmer, pushed his boat out earlier this week by announcing his triumphant return to public life. He has the nation's top job in his sights and has already recruited former One Nation senator Brian Burston to his cause. Speaking today from his base on our state's Sunshine Coast, Palmer vowed to run the...