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EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT Local child Ryan Fielding has done fucked up. He thought it’d be funny to hit his older brother Nathan. And it was funny, only Nathan is not only a sadist but an expert in psychological warfare. It’s alleged Ryan had given Nathan a playful smack while he was sleeping, but was said to have displayed an expression of instant regret...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular local tradesman with a largely inconvenient auto-immune condition has made it clear to some new friends last night that he was born with Type-1 diabetes - and that he feels a mild superiority over those with the Type-2 variety. Darcy Carmichael, of Longview Road in Betoota Heights, was observed last night in the...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT Local woman Ayla Wilson is ready to turn a new leaf and become that neat person she’s always wanted to be. As someone who looked perpetually scruffy, Ayla longed to be one of those people that always looks clean, without a single hair out of place or scuffed, uneven nails. This commitment to being a better version of herself has...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT After a long, tedious day at work, sometimes it’s nice to relax a little with a glass of wine and an impromptu massage. For a local Betoota Heights couple, May Turner and James Tippet, this should have been an ideal opportunity to bond with some physical touch and a segue to sexy time. But unfortunately, James’s lack of effort...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Breathing fresh air for the first time in eight years, recently ex-convict Col Tooth (44) states he is adjusting to life on the outside, even if the gambling ads are a bit much. A punter himself, former councilor Tooth spent eight years inside after redirecting public funds to pay his gambling debts during an election year.  After being released two...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi has this week celebrated a surprise milestone during the pandemic, with the revelations that their Betoota Heights franchise has unwittingly hired the first employee in the company's history to not have gaping spacers in his ears. "This was a first for us" says Glenn Colmslie, general manager of the Betoota Heights store. "I didn't even...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT Old mate Richard Evans is bloody sick of all this talk about converting to cloud technology. Not because he doesn’t understand how it works, but because it’s not to be trusted. At least, that’s what he says, anyway. As the oldest person in the office, you’d think that he’d be keen to keep up with evolving technology to match...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT When it comes to matters of the heart, sometimes well-adjusted people can act a little crazy. One such person is local woman Sheree Tubbs, who’s found herself indulging in a sadistic ritual of habitually going scrolling through six months worth’s of text messages to pinpoint the exact moment her ex lost his feelings. Though she suspected it was just a...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT Feeling that all familiar stab of fear at the pit of her stomach, local woman Tayla Fields glances at her Instagram profile icon a second too late. She’s committed the number one cardinal sin of Instagram stalking – forgetting to use her burner account under the fake name ‘Joshwaters67.’ Tayla is reported to have created the account roughly one month...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As various social media and messaging platforms take over the tech landscape, it can be revealed that the initial form of messaging has slowly become more and more redundant. Particularly for one local bloke named Sam Marychurch, who says he can't remember the last time he got an actual text message from a friend or family member, that...