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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Betoota Grove free-spirit, Bella Robertson, moved to New York just over two years ago with dreams of starting a new life there; new job, new apartment and new New Yorker friends.  Sitting down with The Advocate’s West Coast correspondent, Bella admitted that life in New York isn’t quite what she imagined it would be.  “Well, I don’t have any American...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After dedicating 9-years of his life to the complex plotlines and character arc's of one of the most expensive television series in the history of mankind, local TV connoisseur Brent Pereira (33) has only one thing to say about the Game Of Thrones Finale. "Yawn" says Brento. "Worst. Final. Episode. Ever" Of course, Brent's five-word review is understandable. Even coming someone...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact In a sad indictment on the state of the planet we call home, some US explorers have today discovered rubbish at the deepest point under the sea. On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer and Texas-based investor, made the saddening discover of rubbish at the bottom of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Staying true to his reputation as the unrefined funboy of the British Royal Family, photos have today been leaked of the Duke Of Sussex treating the Queen and Prince Philip to a moving gender reveal ceremony. A gender reveal party is a celebration where either the guests, the expecting parents, or both find out the sex of the baby. As both Prince Harry and...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact The Royal couple have today wasted little time showing off their little bundle of joy to the world. With Harry and Meghan introducing little Archie to the Queen and allowing the salivating media a chance to get a couple of photos, the Royal pair have made sure to make the most of the traction they've got right now....

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prominent Indigenous singer-songwriter Archie Roach is now officially one of two black men in the world named Archie. A name usually reserved for Aryan children born post-2010 to inner-city creatives. This comes as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex reveal the name of their newborn son — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Harry and Markle say that they realised that their...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Roughly a million species across the planet have been disappointed today, after a plea for help on their behalf unfortunately was made on the same day as the arrival of the Royal Baby. In a blow for flora, fauna and the world in general, the United Nation's released a report today confirming that one million species of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prince Harry has once again proven that royals can in fact be everyday people, in his newest instagram post announcing the birth of his first child. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have welcomed a baby boy, with Buckingham Palace announcing the Duchess of Sussex gave birth at 5:26am on Monday. The newborn Prince has been named Aubrey, after Markle's favourite...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Content warning: this article discusses that east coast slang that us country girls we like Radio stations all around the world have started to pull one of Destiny's Child most popular songs from the airwaves, following the release of controversial new think-piece published by Pedestrian.TV's leading white upper class feminist, Tangerine Holden. The article, titled Here's Why Boys Will Never Be Able To Be Raised As Gentlemen As Long As Beyoncè Knowles And Her Gang Of Toxic Masculinity-Apologists Are Still Being Treated Like Feminist Icons, discusses the severe allegations levelled...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The disastrous fire of two old towers that may or may not have been up to fire code in an old Cathedral that may or may not have at one point been used to harbour pedophiles, has resulted in a wave of tributes via social media from Melbourne-based former-backpackers who were lucky enough to see it once. Catastrophic fire...