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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Productivity is down and thoughts of quitting his job and moving to Ghana are on the up. Matt Greenslade has a bad case of the Mondays and with each passing moment, he hopes that 5 o'clock rolls around without anybody asking him to do anything remotely challenging. "I didn't even get up to much," he told...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact A torn slice of Bega cheese on a Jatz bickie is one of the most explosive flavour combinations to come out of Australia in the past decade. It’s become a staple in the diets of many a man, in particular, Toby Gallany (29), who has inadvertently had the dynamic duo for dinner since his...

Betoota Plains cocky Hamish Palmer (28), has today had a haunting realisation. 3 hours into his 8-hour drive home, Mr. Palmer discovered that he had in fact been driving in silence the entire time. Usually the type to listen to Luke Bryan’s greatest hits on repeat, Hamish was quite shaken by this voluntary silence – naturally leading him to further question...

GEOFF OVERELL | Opinion | Contact I was only nine when people started calling me Jeff. For so long, I wondered why I'd drift off to sleep in class or in the playground at lunch. No matter how much sleep I got the night before, it made little difference. So they called me Jeff. It wasn't until I was much older that a diagnosis...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT RSL bartender Merl Evers (45) had to stay late at work last night after asking local farmer Geoff Trainer (66) how things are going, a decision she immediately regretted after Trainer began giving a detailed and honest answer. Despite the fact Evers has become a much-loved staple of Betoota RSL, but even with a quarter century of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local dad, Choc Liston (57) has today made it clear that he's willing to do whatever is necessary to protect himself from the wrath of his wife, Gabby. After allegedly quitting cigarettes a couple years ago, Choc's second-oldest, Rory, has caught the old back out the back of the family home hoeing into a lungbuster, "Busted!" yelled the 16-year-old Rory,...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact She's not asking for much, just a little bit of decorum during business hours. A junior asset manager at Bell Potter's South Betoota office has spoken candidly to The Advocate this after about some of the language her coworkers use day-to-day. And from what she told us, it's far, far from professional. "It's almost like I'm invisible," said Alex Gillies,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact With a copy of Barefoot Investor tucked under his arm, Danny Cartwright joined our reporter this afternoon at a popular French Quarter cafe to talk about the outdated social construct of leaving the family home at 18. "Rent is dead money," he said. "I don't see any point in it. Why give your money to someone else?" While the 28-year-old concedes...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A dishevelled city worker hailed the G34 bus up the hill to Betoota Heights tonight and proceeded to pay the $3.20 fare with an assortment of silver coins, according to a popular structural engineer. Lucas Patel stood in awe at Jake Mullins, who held the bus up for close to ninety seconds while he tried to get the change...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact Though most of the town's small brewing community know, the sales and accounts team down at Betoota United Breweries have gone on another day pretending like they haven't all slept with each other before. Queensland sales manager, Sandra Stevens, has confided in The Advocate this afternoon saying that by living under the illusion that she's never gone all...