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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT An Australian lobbying collective is looking out for the people, as usual, by pressuring the government to allow punters to bet using their super. Years ago, there was an idea that an individual's superannuation was a monetary resource to be accessed only when you reach the age of retirement which should be sometime between 80 and death for most...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Fuck those Kiwi bastards," he said. "I will never forget what you did to us." In February of 2001, the Air New Zealand Group acquired 100% of the Ansett Group after buying out News Corp. It was the end of the thinking man's Qantas as the nation knew it. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT An office in downtown Betoota is reeling this morning as if it comes to terms with a major twist in a true crime series. The Advocate can report that gossip was rife this morning at PR firm MGMT Communications, as a group 14 employees gathered around their pod of desks to debrief about their weekends and share...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the cost of living crisis continues to hurt even middle-class families around the country, a polite and law-abiding young man from Betoota Heights has had to resort to crime today after saying goodbye to Binge and Britbox. Instead of streaming Grand Designs and Heartbeat like he usually would in the evening, Mark Darius is...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Rugby league’s King of Class has set the standard once again as NRL 360 regular Paul Kent spent another episode providing a rational fact-based argument delivered with respect and nuance. As a man with exactly one first grade game to his name, many would argue that Kent has no place in a nightly panel show about rugby league while...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Barnaby Joyce fears the decision to omit him from the Australian Boomers FIBA World Cup Squad may be politically motivated as the Armidale Lions shooting guard put many teams to the sword during this year's New England Basketball season. Coming off a triple-double performance against the Ben Lomond Frisbees last weekend, the former Nationals leader...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our town's leading financiers has criticised the move by the Albanese Government to raise the JobSeeker Allowance by $3.70 per day, telling The Advocate that doing so would be a waste the tax dollars he pays. Former banker Wally Greenslade, who owns and controls vast swathes of country here in the Diamantina as...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Popular supermarket chain Centra is coming to Sydney later this year, with hopes to help beat the cost of living crisis by bringing their signature cheap chicken rolls. As a cornerstone of Irish cuisine for decades, Centra's rolls have been sorely missed by the directionless young people that leave Ireland every year for the golden...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Some in the artificial intelligence community have expressed concerns recently that the technology is developing too quickly, which will lead to robots taking over the world. Those experts, who agree that AI will eventually enslave or kill us all, obviously haven't played the new AFL23 game that's out now on PS5 and other consoles because...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter man's afternoon was busy, he says, walking through scrub on the edge of town with a bolt-action .22 and a pocket full of subsonic rounds. While some enjoy shooting galahs for sport, Jem Mitchell was unlawfully killing a protected species for more ethical reasons. The 35-year-old teacher was recently gifted a Heston Blumenthal...