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14 June, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD interior designer is picking up the pieces today after he got a bit carried away with some bloke last night. Matthew Dollarhyde, up until now, has been a keen donator of blood. His AB- blood type is especially rare. "Once I found out I was AB- after a car accident,...

11 June, 2016. 18:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF THERE'S ANYTHING that every young person in the free world can agree on, it's that everything Coldplay has released since 2008 has been dog shit. Taking some time out of his busy long weekend, Greg Peacock flicked through a few old Facebook albums of him and the squad back at school. The...

11 June, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KEVIN GREENHOLM SAYS he should've walked out when his partner in crime started nearly sorting the chips by weight. That was when he was only $5000 in the hole. The 59-year-old semi-retired geologist admits he should've known better, saying that he hatched the plan to take his autistic childhood friend to Jupiter's Casino...

10 June, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER is back in the headlines again today after he told some mouthy hornbag down at a New England pub to "piss off" when a quiet discussion about mining got out of hand. Coming in on the burst, Joyce featured alongside political and personal rival Tony Windsor on ABC's Q&A programme...

10 June, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FINDING A NEW WAY of disgracing and embarrassing himself each day, friendly area bartender Martin Shorthorn woke this morning to find no food in the fridge. Unphased, he confidently strode down to his local shopping strip in Brisbane's New Farm district, walking right past his local Greek-owned mixed business delicatessen, past three...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact As society's lowest common denominator continues to slip, Channel Nine's investagtive journalism program A Current Affair is now stepping outside its usual format of 'dodgy landlords' and 'bickering neighbours'. Tracey Grimshaw spoke to The Betoota Advocate this morning. "What we have found is that we can gee up pretty much anything with a bit of spooky noise and media scrum,"...

9 June, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact   SHARON GLEESON SITS IN her Caboolture kitchen, working her way through her fourth Horizon Blue of the morning while she polishes off a neenish tart. Her knuckles are bruised and her earlobes are covered up in bandaids. Nearing the end of her tasty lung candy, she lets out an earth-shattering cough and...

6 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER COMING FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, one senior partner at a prestigious Sydney law firm promised his young self that he'd support his children and give them every leg up in life that he never had. That was until his 20-year-old son Matthew came home one afternoon with a series of exotic ear...

7 June, 2016. 15:34 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Sydney homeowners whose waterfront mansions were wiped out by extreme sea conditions stand to lose millions if they are not covered by insurance - this means they will now have to re-enter the Sydney housing market starting from scratch - a feat that is sure to see them labelled as "lazy and whiney" by...

7 June, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SIX MONTHS AGO, FOUR CORNERS introduced us to a new adjective in the Australian vernacular. Cunt-struck. While you might've heard that term used before, in a public house or football field, it was the first time that the crude term was broadcast into millions of living rooms. It was used by Michael Lawler, the husband of...