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22 July, 2016 14:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following both the Republican and Democratic Conventions, as well as the recent DNC wikileaks emails, political reporters from The Guardian are now trying their very best to cover the US Presidential election without acknowledging the fact that Donald Trump is almost a sure bet to win this thing. Speaking to the Betoota Advocate today, former...

19 July, 2016. 11:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TRIBUTES FROM AROUND THE world have been flowing in this morning after 26-year-old pop star Taylor Swift became the third female victim of the Kardashian family's rampage through popular culture. She was found late last night face down in a bowl of Fruit Loops at her Los Angeles home. Known primarily for either...

6 July, 2016. 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact With Western Governments around the world currently experiencing a concerning rise in populism and the return of once extinct protectionist movements, it seems the only thing that can manage to console the ever anxious voter is completely fabricated quotes attributed to Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was the Prime Minister...

4 July, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SWATHES OF CHILDREN ARE receiving counselling and thousands of other ordinary Australians were "extremely creeped out" by footage broadcast by the Seven Network that showed Oscar Pistorius walking around on his nubs. Originally aired on Seven's investigative journalism program Sunday Night, the highly confronting images of the disgraced athlete sent a shockwave...

29 June, 2016. 11:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL has confirmed that a party boat that went missing of Koh Samui in Thailand last month was intercepted off the coast of Christmas Island. A border protection source has told The Advocate a vessel was intercepted by the Navy in the early hours of Monday morning. In May, a Thai party...

23 June, 2016 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With three Western world economies making their way to the polls in 2016, it appears that the future of planet Earth is resting on the opinions of a trans-national community of people who would much prefer to watch reality television than the news. While Great Britain decided earlier this year that they would like to leave the...

21 June, 2016 13:40 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former frontman of Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning, and Queensland rugby league icon Wally Lewis are the latest high-profile Queenslanders to lend their support to the growing "Quexit" movement - it has been confirmed. Speaking to fellow 'Quexit' ambassador, Karl Stefanovic, on the Channel Nine TODAY show this morning, both men (dressed in knee-length shorts and boat...

6 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE HEARTS OF HIPSTERS and perverts around the world are filled with pangs of sadness this afternoon as Hillary Clinton officially won the Democratic nomination in California. Capitulating like a Bangladeshi cricket team, Bernie Sanders is refusing to give in until the very last moment - even though he's on track to...

4 May, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A RARE LAPSE OF judgement, former treasurer turned ambassador Joe Hockey was seen throwing a television off a fourth story balcony yesterday as Scott Morrison delivered his first address on the nation's chequebook. The Dick Smith brand 52-inch plasma was about to receive a National Heritage seal for being an exceptionally...

10 April, 2016. 13:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following a bungled child snatch in Lebanon, a 60 Minutes crew and the mother at the centre of at trans-national custody battle, are spending their third night behind bars, as Australian diplomats work for their release. However, what the Lebanese authorities don't seem to understand is that one member of the Australian investigative...