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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In an effort to make himself seem less alone to a 19-year-old bartender, a local city worker asked for two schooners with his $10 jug of Tiger to give the illusion that he's waiting for somebody to join him. The only time Roger Spearman gets to spend on his own is the commute to and...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A local concrete cowboy has saddled up for a big day on the horse. The Finance and Corporate Affairs Analyst at a firm in Betoota’s cobbled Old City District checked everything was in order, as he does every weekday, and got up into the saddle. With his Berocca fizzing away in his water bottle, his long black cooling off in his keep cup and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local storeman, Adrian Masina (55) has today written off rather serious criminal charges and the subsequent pressure put on his marriage as simply a result of what you get on them bigger jobs. It seems after last Friday arvo's knock off drinks, Adrian and a couple of his colleagues decided to push the boat out a bit further and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local inner-city corporate creative's transition from one a fortnight social smoker to full-blown vaper has been brought into question today. This comes after Indi Austen (22) powered through two Juul pods in one sitting last night. Juul is an electronic cigarette company that makes the Juul e-cigarette, which packages nicotine salts from leaf tobacco into one-time use cartridges. Each cartridge,...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact An exhausted Natalie Hawker (28) has flopped down on the couch in her new living room this evening after an extremely strenuous and busy day of watching her boyfriend and his mates move her furniture for 9-hours straight. Speaking to The Advocate after she’d had some time to 'just put her feet up,' you know, she explained how she...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A local mechanic just let out an audible 'Fuck' in his garage this afternoon. He did so after watching the better part of a hundred bucks just walk out the door. Run off his feet with one of his junior staff leaving work sick before lunch and another on holiday, Tony Watson made a simple but costly...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the Larson household, Sunday night is usually reserved for a little bit of culture. Whether it's pub choir or a some local oriental cuisine, the family clears the schedule and gets everyone together. Last night it was Thai. Kerry Larson (60) appears to be getting a bit more experimental with age. Once upon a time, his idea of ethnic...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact June Watson had a fairly straightforward list of groceries to purchase when she entered Aldi today, however, a trip down the special buys aisle has meant June’s now found herself back home admiring her brand new dishwasher.  This should come as no surprise to any Aldi veteran, but as June is only a recent adopter of the German supermarket,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the heart of Betoota's Flight Path District, the intersection between Peter Beattie Boulevard and Samantha Riley Drive is not generally known as a hot spot for locals to socialise. That is, unless it's 3am on a Wednesday morning and the local Vietnamese gangs are taking over the adjacent CostCo car park with their heavily modified Nissans and WRXs. But...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact A recent survey carried out by a Betoota tech and communications agency, TechComm, has revealed some staggering results around phone coverage in the Diamantina region. For the majority of Betootanese parents, a weekly phone call with their children living interstate is the only chance they get to touch base. However, as the survey reveals, 80% of these conversations are...