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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rather than bob his head along to the Top 40 like he used to do, Mark Douglas is now a podcast person. The Betoota Heights resident and H Train regular is a recent subscriber of the popular Outback Strangler podcast which goes through a number of unsolved murders in the wider district. Despite a thorough investigation...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The owners of a visually displeasing house in Betoota's old Meatworkers district have been praised by local council for keeping the building just as ugly as it was when it was built in the 1940s. Situated at number 3 Daroo street, the house has had only three owners since it first began violating the eyes of the locals, and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Another eventless evening drew to a close at the Dolphins Leagues Club at 10 pm last night. Roger Dunston rang the bell for last drinks, locked the pokies, took the tills and told the barman to get them all out by 10:30. It's not the 24-year-old's first rodeo and it certainly won't be his last. But until...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Little Wolfgang Spencer of Greenpoint Road in Betoota Grove has had his wisdom, which is beyond his years, relayed to the world via his father's Facebook account this morning. As the Australia Day Long Weekend fast approaches, the bright two-year-old quested his father why not everyone in the country can enjoy the holiday. The exchange was...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As Toploader's 'Dancing In The Moonlight' softly plays over the PA system, the lift opens and Tim Rowland is blown away by what he sees. He's just arrived at one of Sydney's most exclusive and hip rooftop bars, Autofellatio, which has been open since late November. "Cool," he thought to himself. "I wonder if I'm the first...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A year-long study into the most effective way to make adult children revisit the nest has concluded this afternoon and the results are quite telling. That’s according to the Betoota Chapter President of the Country Women’s Association, who told The Advocate this afternoon that the promise of a home-cooked meal and some couch time is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Keen to gain a little bit of independence, Cameron Frost chomped at the opportunity to get his learners permit mere hours after he turned 16. Now tasked with the challenge of learning to drive an automobile, the spritely fourth-former's parents have risen to the occasion and have spent the past few weeks trying to help...

STELLA SINCLAIR | Fashions | Contact Peggy Spudmann told our reporters that she attended a wedding on Saturday wearing a lacey white dress on purpose, just to see what would happen. Along with her polite but ultimately plain husband, Gary, they jagged an invitation to the wedding of a workmate of his - so in Peggy's own words, she didn't know the couple very well. Late...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Arguably the meanest and most socially influential girl from your finishing class at high school has returned back to town with a completely new image. Its has been reported by her former confidantes that Evie Peterson (20) is no longer interested in dating older guys with fairly good prospects of playing in the NRL, but instead is more caught...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Picking up The Advocate this morning, the front page made Phil Durham choke on his honeyed Wonder White slice. "Kid A," he coughed. "Now way in hell is that the best Radiohead album. Everybody knows it's The Bends. A child would probably tell you it's OK Computer or Amnesiac. Trust me, it's The Bends," "This is outrageous! A person's choice in news...