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EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT With bars and restaurants slowly opening up again, scores of bar promoters are scrambling to come up with clever ways to incorporate the pandemic into live music events. One such pack of promoters - a bunch of Whooton boys who all peaked in high school - have set aside their Sunday afternoon to bounce off some ideas. The group...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Amongst his friendship group, David Wilson is not known for his ingenuity however this evening in his lakeside apartment in Betoota Sound he has easily silenced all his critics and has actually performed something quite innovative. While cooking a delicious carbonara for his girlfriend, “the type without cream” he says, David’s pepper grinder ran out of peppercorns. As anyone...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT An apprentice has today committed a serious social faux pas by rocking up to the worksite with the wrong kind of terrier, it’s reported. Jared Krisher had been urged by his mum to take the family King Charles Cavalier, Molly, out with him, after she’d grown tired of the pup’s incessant yapping. Jared reckons that aside from...

KENT REGINALD | Nightlife| CONTACT A local bouncer and all-round top bloke is genuinely concerned about how much a punter has had to drink before he got to the night club, several eyewitnesses are reporting tonight. Jon Biggun, a 37 year old Betoota man who works door security at local nightclub ‘Tooty Frooty’, was reportedly carrying out his usual Monday night security duties...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The trials and tribulations of living in a leafy suburban Queensland enclave were felt by all on Daroo Crescent in Betoota Grove this morning. Local tradesman, Leo, has had waited until 6:00 am on the dot to fire up his beloved drop saw - as his non-council approved renovations continue to edge further out the backyard. While Leo's neighbours try...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Bradley Thomas has revealed to The Advocate that things are truly back to normal for him. The 3rd Grade Betoota Dolphins stalwart said that after coming up with one of his best excuses yet as to why he wouldn't make training. "Yeah I told the coach I had to pick up a puppy from way out of town for...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a time when Michael Davey walked by a kebab shop at 9am and wondered why it was open. "Who'd want to eat a kebab at this hour," he'd laugh to help as he thumbed forward on this week's How I Built This podcast. As it turns out, the budding entrepreneur's coworker is one of those people who walk...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT With lockdowns slowly easing, hordes of young Australians are looking forward to spending hundreds of dollars on overpriced beer, and scoring risky stingers from a stranger in the smoking section, it’s reported. The girls at the 328 Daroo Road household have reportedly been able to tide themselves over by scoring some subpar disco biccies from the owner of a...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact A local Real Estate agent’s enthusiastic endorsement of the suburb surrounding a newly-available rental house has been called into question after the area was revealed to have a higher than average number of shopping trolleys in the local creek. Betoota Banks, a suburb on the outskirts of the pebblecrete belt, has a population of almost 800 but the number of trolleys in...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Anti 5-G protestors have turned on Police again today after allegations the primary supplier of Tear Gas may not be ethically sourcing the ingredients of the non-lethal weapon. “We just don’t have the information we need to make an informed decision about the type of tear gas we are ingesting” said protester Anna Smailles. “Is it capsicum spray?...