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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Brisbane City Council will reduce its 2023/2024 budget by about $400 million in a cost cutting exercise, as Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner attempts to deal with inflation by simply being less pretentious. The move, which comes just months after the budget was handed down in June, will equate to a 10 per cent reduction in council spending by choosing...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In a victory that feels 'kind of' like he's just won an election, opposition leader Peter Dutton is taking credit for a resounding ‘No’ result in the 2023 Indigenous Voice Referendum This makes the Liberal Party the first political movement since Imperial Japan to actually celebrate after performing a successful kamikaze mission. As someone who is about as electable...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT The hardest working bloke in Parliament House, plumber Gerry Godrich (54) is enjoying a well-earned sleep-in this morning as he no longer has to show up to work to change the bubblers on his Sunday morning. This follows the news that Australians will remain divided by a ten-year life expectancy gap, after a multimillion dollar campaign to 'stop the...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactAs a seasoned and highly successful property investor, I know firsthand that logic occasionally tries to creep its way into the property market of Australia. Thankfully, our property market, more so than any other around the globe, is irrepressibly resilient against any form of logic or reason, belligerently so. And this is especially true nowadays during our country’s ill-advised push...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT In a display of heart pumping, adrenaline-junkie behavior, local resident Eli Mercer (29) made a bold move by deciding to grab a slice of pizza from a sketchy kebab shop at 3 am. After a night out in Betoota's French Quarter, Eli had started feeling that old familiar need to fill his stomach before morning. While passing by the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Two days out from Australia's historic Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum and the entire nation is wondering if it really needed to be this difficult. This comes as Federal Senator Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous 'No campaigner' against the Voice, says Voice should be legislated if the referendum fails. Thorpe's reasoning is that she was always opposed to constitutional recognition in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A post-natal patient at Royal Betoota Base Hospital has told this masthead that she's received a lot of advice about dealing with her day-old baby from a number of helpful staff. Each midwife that Carmen Frost has spoken to in the past few days has taken time to share their experiences and opinions with her...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite moving on to bigger and better things in life, a local woman has told The Advocate that she's still a sucker for a naughty boy who drives a Proton Jumbuck. Sandra Gale, a Brisbane corporate lawyer and apartment owner, is home for the week to help her grandfather recuperate from a recent hip replacement....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Australia were outclassed and outplayed in their first match of the thinking man's Cricket World Cup overnight, going down by six wickets in Chennai. David Warner and Steve Smith made sure the tourists would have some sort of score to defend but in the end, the Australian total was chased down in 41 overs. It comes...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 5 days until the nation goes to the ballot box, and families around the country are discussing this Indigenous Voice thing. The plan to include Indigenous people in the Constitution, and constitutionally enshrine an Indigenous Advisory Body that cannot be slashed to make room for ballet subsidies under a Liberal Government, has been floating in the background of the...