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INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact "All of his profile pictures are hunting pictures," she said. "One of them was a feral cat that looked like it'd been run over by a lawnmower. What the fuck is wrong with people? And why do they think that'd be a good idea to put those pictures up on social media?" "Seriously, though. This town,...

Alex Kambouris is one of those guys you kind of knew at high school and kind of got on well but that's pretty much where it ended. Even though you haven't seen him since 2007 and have only heard his name brought up in conversations several times since then, he's still contactable through social media if you need to get...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A visiting American tourist sack back in his chair last night at the Betoota Dolphin's Leagues Club and wryly asked his new local friends if they rode kangaroos to school. Max Sterling, originally from Portland in Oregon, is visiting friends in Betoota Heights that he met last year during the famous Calgary Stampede in British Columbia. Now finding himself in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though the symptoms pass with each passing minute, a young man who does things in an office with a computer during the week has tried telling himself that he's going to make a change. The change Peter Durkin is going to change is his alcohol intake. However, he concedes that the idea is more of a...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Primary Industries | Contact The trials and tribulations of Claire and Tess McLeod captured the hearts and minds of Australians for nearly a decade. Their realistic representation of life on the farm inspired an entire generation of men and women to drop the pens and pick up rake – however, as Hannah Ankerton (26) is just finding...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Legendary British songbird Elton John interrupted a London concert this morning local time to preface the next song by saying times have changed and Saturday nights are no longer OK for fighting. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting was the first single from John's 1973 juggernaut Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and is among one of the most successful...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has laughed off the suggestion that he pretended to be horrified at the Royal Commission's findings this afternoon, telling reporters he always thought the banking sector was all above board. "I can assure you, when I was a banker, things were a lot different," said Malcolm Turnbull this afternoon in Sydney. "Honestly, these people are crooks. I...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular local motocross enthusiast is tonight facing charges for a string of unsolved oxygen thefts in recent years after being accused of the crimes on social media. Johnny Butler, third cousin to famous rock-folk troubadour John Butler, took to Facebook earlier this week to publically call out Mark Porter for failing to uphold his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular young professional couple has recently taken to social media to show friends, family and casual onlookers that they've recently entered the property market - heralding a new chapter in their lives. Marcia Sock and Gavin Coolidge, both of Betoota Grove fame, are the new owners of a handsome four-bedroom home in a quiet cul-de-sac just steps from...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A retired local magistrate has weighed into the 'vapid-cunt-gate' sweeping controversy that's making waves in the Australian media sphere - telling The Advocate that the journalist responsible for it and the news media organisation who published it have no case. They have no case because the remarks were not defamatory because they were 'true'. Justice Wanda Redhorse, who served on...