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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local fourth-year bakers apprentice has this week wound up with a bit of extra cash than usual, after pulling off a cheeky Keno win during an Easter family gathering at Betoota Dolphins Leagues Club. Dale Berrigan, 20, said he was just “feeling generous” when he reached for the 98% octane nozzle at the local Puma, in what he puts down to a random act of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though Betoota Heights is essentially a quiet grid pattern with two main streets, local fitness fanatic, Peter Douglas, says he's only able to do his morning and afternoon jogs down the busiest streets when foot traffic is at its heaviest. "It's a real inconvenience," said the 34-year-old. "I'm trying to do my cardio and there's just a sea of slow walking...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Sacha Boromir arrived home to South Betoota just before Christmas but he's not ready to let go of London, according to his wallet. There are times when, upon boarding the KonnektSouth Bus line that goes past his parent's three bedder on Green Road, he accidentally pulls his Oyster card - London's equivalent of Betoota's BaiameCard - from his wallet and holds...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Short of having people over 64 put to sleep and their entire wealth redistributed back into the economy, Malcolm Turnbull has hinted that his 'make-or-break' May budget will benefit all Australians - including entitled middle-class Millennials. Speaking today from the Royal Motor Yacht Club in the quickly gentrifying East Point Piper district of the otherwise...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact At two dollars a six pack, Dale Peckham said the hot cross buns were hard to walk past down the supermarket this morning. That and the kilo bags of generic Easter eggs, which were a modest $3.50. We spoke to the chronically malnourished history student this morning in the cold meats section of the French Quarter...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the curse of daylight savings comes to an end for another summer, a Tweed man breathed a sigh of relief as he took off his second watch which he uses to keep track of the time south of the border. "It's just part and parcel with living close to the border," said Morris Goblin, a local small business...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Home on his first uni break, a popular first-year journalism student has told friends and family that we're all living in a 'kingdom of fear' and that the world needs fabled gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson now more than ever. Bryce Waterman, who convinced himself to enrol in the print journalism course at South Betoota Polytechnic College (SBPC) this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A survey distributed and conducted by Baiame Consolidated Media, The Advocate's owners, to local newspaper editors and owners has found that in 2018, it's become increasingly difficult to produce engaging and high-quality April Fools Day content. Five of the seven newspaper editors in the Betoota Newspaper Editors' Guild responded to the survey highlighted that the relationship...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Only one person knows why Mike Guthrie's phone has been ringing off the hook this afternoon - and he's not about to reveal himself. At least not to Mike. Speaking candidly to The Advocate, one of Mike's 'friends' told our reporter that the reason why his phone has been ringing non-stop since lunchtime is that he's put an ad up...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "You know, more than half a million people have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011," said Darren Lehmann. "Mate, that's not even the start of it. The government of President Bashar al-Assad responded to Arab Spring protests with a bloody crackdown that's spiralled into a full-blown civil war." Peter Handsome sat there in silence, staring out...