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22 January, 2016 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Australian Opals forward Alice Kunek is the first professional female Australian to ever feature in a mainstream newspaper since the Sydney Olympics, after painting her face black for an end-of-season dress-up day. A photograph of Kunek, dressed as her favourite rapper Kanye West for the Melbourne Boomers' 'Silly Sunday' celebrations, was posted on social media on Sunday and prompted an angry...

19 February, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THERE'S NO NEED TO BE alarmed, that's the message from the NSW government as they battle to contain a potential outbreak of the often fatal Redfern bindi-eye. Thought the be extinct since the early 2000's, this latest environmental disaster has got officials worried. Two years ago, a pleasant young man from Bellevue Hill...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the fall-out over the dramatic ending of a friendship between two of the AFL's biggest names continues, a study by the Australian Institute Of Sport has identified the breakdown of long-standing friendships between former footballers and is very common. In fact, the estimated number of present and past AFL stars that are currently rooting another mates' wife sits at roughly 54%. An example of this was seen...

17 February, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact LIKE NEARLY EVERY OTHER GREAT country town, all the young people have left. There's little opportunity to reach for the stars when you're cutting sandwiches out the back of an outback takeaway shop. So when Kanye West's highly anticipated seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, arrived at The Advocate's doorstep,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent study conducted by the Licensing Inquiries and Testing For Australian Management (LitFam) ombudsman shows the New South Wales' state government has gone completely the wrong way about dealing with rates of alcohol-related violence in the CBD. The LitFam report identifies key strategies used to prevent the rise in one-punch, two-punch, all-in, and coward punch assaults throughout Australian...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN AN EFFORT TO further protect Australia from outside threats to our way of life, the Department of Immigration has announced today that one aspect of the citizenship test will require a candidate to mix a glass of cordial and make fairy bread. Should the potential new Australian make a particularly weak glass of cordial, they...

10 February, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FORMER INDEPENDENT MEMBER FOR New England Tony Windsor has ridden time on one of the most feared bulls in all of South West Queensland, Bone Crusher. The Cordillo Downs Invitational attracts some of the biggest names in amateur corner country rodeo, with the likes of Windsor and other assorted country glitterati making the...

5 February, 2016. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Media icon and hedonistic functional alcoholic, Karl Stefanovic, has revealed his newest business venture on breakfast television this morning: The Logie Smugglers. In what can only be described as a blatant conflict of interest and a shameless promotion of his own brand, the Today Show Co-Host debuted his new line of male swimmers on-air shortly before...

3 February, 2016 11:45 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | CONTACT Usman Khawaja is still not on the radar of prominent Australian ODI selectors, despite being fully dressed in cricket attire and practicing shots with the team physio outside of Eden Park this afternoon. "We haven't seen much from him yet," said chairman of selectors Rod Marsh. "He'll show his promise when he develops a little bit," Usman Khawaja...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS NETFLIX COMES through on its promise to shut the door on Australian VPN users,  consumers have hit back, saying that they wouldn't have to circumvent geo-blocking if the local catalogue was as comprehensive and satisfying as the American one. The Australian version of Netflix has six times less content and costs more. One local subscriber has...