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21 April, 2016. 14:05 PADDY MUNRO | Contributor | CONTACT The notorious DEFQON.1 music festival has been forced to alter its Sydney line up in order to receive a much needed boost in funding from the Australian Federal Government The notorious hard-styles festival’s Dutch organiser, Q-Dance, announced yesterday it has added a new contemporary music stage and chardonnay bar to its 2016 takeover of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Warning: This article contains an incessant, opportunistic and misleading use of the word 'community'  Board members for the East Betoota library say that they have no option other than to install several poker machines to ensure the future of their community. With cuts to education and the imminent amalgamation of local councils, it seems the 104-year-old educational...

20 April, 2016. 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Female university students around Australia are pleading with their campus administrators and male peers to at least treat them equally while they are at uni, just so they can experience what equality feels like before entering the Australian workforce. Local female university student, Sarah McGirlson (18) says that she knows the the rest...

20 April, 2016. 10:04 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Uber could be scrapped at any minute in Queensland, with the Katter Family set to learn if their bid to have the service banned through severe penalties for drivers will succeed, in turn saving the one cab driving job in Mount Isa - as well as the two others between Mt Isa and Betoota. The...

19 April, 2016. 15:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In what appears to be one last snub of his nose to Australian quarantine laws, new footage has today revealed that Johnny Depp wasn't actually that sincere during his official apology to Australia yesterday afternoon. A photo, tweeted by the actor, at 11:30pm last night - shows his right hand performing a...

18 April, 2016. 15:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Malcolm Turnbull is still confused about what a self-employed, blue collar, driver-owner truckie was doing with his hand during a meet and greet yesterday. A convoy of more than 200 trucks from as far away as Queensland and Victoria converged on Canberra ahead of the senate debating the abolition of the Road Safety...

18 April, 2016. 09:55 PADDY MUNRO | Contributor | CONTACT Despite being represented by the National Broadband Network’s architect and innovative Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the voters of Wentworth in Sydney’s affluent Eastern Suburbs are more likely to find pingers rolling out onto their streets than the NBN. A special investigation by the Betoota Advocate found it was fifteen times easier to access...

PAUL BARRET | Climate and Weather | Contact AS IT TURNS OUT, 23-year-old Devin Capers isn't the big swinging dick he thought he was. The apprentice carpet layer made a series of "off-the-cuff" and crass remarks directed at the WhatsApp group admin, who then swiftly removed him. That was three days ago. In that time, he's tried to sabotage a mate's chances at rooting a female...

15 April, 2016. 10:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An entire Lebanese television crew have been shot dead during an alleged kidnapping of two children in Brisbane today. The four-member crew was among nine people, including the children's Lebanese father, Falli Salkneer, who were shot and killed by police over the incident this morning. Surveillance video purportedly shows the moment members of a so-called...

14 April, 2o16. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact REALITY TELEVISION SHOWS SUCH AS Married At First Sight and other like it may soon be forced to display a warning label prior to broadcast under sweeping new measures put forward by the Attorney-General of Australia. A disclaimer-type caution may also be on the cards to outline that the following presentation will...