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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a big day teaching improv to the stockbrokers, barristers and Liberal politicians of tomorrow, Mr Jensen throws on The Whitlams and puts away a couple bottles of red. Despite a relatively healthy pay packet to be working in the field he loves, he knows the 'art' of theatre is lost on the boys of Saint Magnums College in...

26 May, 2017. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A prominent East Betoota meth cook has lashed out at lesser media outlets for scaring the population by saying robots and automation will take their jobs in the coming years. Bradley Dennis Kinkman explained to The Advocate this afternoon that online blogs such as The Courier-Mail and The Northern Times are 'sensationalising a non-issue...

24 May, 2017. 15:23 JUAN GENERO| Motorsport | Contact A throaty chorus of eight cylinder motors rang out across West Betoota this morning as news of controversial Sudanese-Australian media personality Yassmin Abdel-Magied having her ABC television show cancelled filtered through town. A month after attracting criticism for a tasteless ANZAC Day social media post, the ABC announced earlier this week that Australia Wide, a...

24 May, 2017. 15:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Retiree Peter Jenkins didn't ask for any of the attention he's currently receiving now, but he couldn't sit idly by and watch his community decay any longer. The 71-year-old former prison guard, still fresh from an afternoon sherry at the Betoota Dolphins Leagues Club, decided to do the right thing and get the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Penny (6) and her twin brothers Tom and Roddy have today learnt some new grown-up words after their beloved dad, Ryan, had a mishap in the living room. After rushing to the street to take the bins out in time for the council pick up, dad was trudging back to the kitchen to make sure he hadn't burnt their...

23 May, 2017. 12:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A report commissioned by the World Health Organisation has found that nearly all of the happiest, healthiest nations on the planet still allow smoking inside licensed pubs and clubs. Denmark, recently named the happiest country in the world, still allows people to enjoy a cigarette with a cold beer inside. Patrons...

22 May, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Year 10 student at a prestigious South Betoota secondary school has had his world turned upside down after being required to read Catcher in the Rye for English class. Though he admits it's the first book he's read cover-to-cover, Alistair Momms-Boltons said the book's protagonist Holden Caufield speaks to him on a...

19 May, 2017. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A grown man living at home with his parents has had his easy and free access to avocados cut off my his father, who ring-barked the family avocado tree to spite him. Citing the aggressive and expensive rental market in Betoota's trendy Old City District, Stephen Poltergeist a local youngtrepreneur, said he wouldn't...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Swanning around the sales department of The Advocate in his $99 off-the-rack suit, account coordinator Gavin Mole-Turner lets his stretched ear lobes jiggle and jangle with each flick of his head. The 29-year-old was a latchkey kid from the start, who quickly grew up misunderstood and angry. "I found solace in music," said Gavin, who started...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though he's not usually known around town for his cheeky penchant for a rice paper roll and a party pie, Ian Lawrence, or 'Stagecoach' as his mates call him, put two and two together this afternoon at a work function and downed them both. He did so because a waiter asked him to, so she...