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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local grub has sought to improve his public image by posting a series of images of him posing with his cousin's best friend's newborn baby girl to his Instagram account. James Nerada was able to convince himself moments before asking to be handed the child that if he did share some candid pics of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a 6:30 pm knock off, local man Nick Nelson (31) had only two schooeys at the Lord Betoota Hotel last night, before heading home. "I'd had a late lunch at work so wasn't thinking about dinner, got to the pub for a few throat charmers and all of a sudden I felt like I'd had ten of...

7 March, 2017. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Taking the moral high-ground by throwing her chair in a creek, a local public relations account director has taken to standing at her North Betoota desk - putting her wellbeing first before comfort. The healthy choice has allowed Julianne Busbey to look down at those who still sit down and work like neanderthals, judging them silently...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local flakey Dad, Scott Abetz (62) says that if Muslims want to move here, they better learn about Aussie values. "This wildly varying religion of 1.6 billion people have a different set of family values. A different way of life" he says. "They are trying to change what we have" Scott, who has three children from two different marriages in two...

6 March, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In an effort to maintain a level of consistency this Test series, the Indian Cricket Board (ICB) has made a formal request to the Diamantina Shire Council for another drop-in pitch from the back blocks of South West Betoota. Late last year, the controlling entity of Indian cricket purchased two pitches from...

6 March, 2017. 12:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There is a man who works for a local IT business who is normal in every other way, save for the fact that he enjoys drinking his tea with milk. As his disgusted co-workers look on, Johnathon Tabernacle often leaves his desk around 11 each morning to fix himself a cuppa. For...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Stepping out of his new office on Betoota's leafy Upper West Side, Connor Wales thought he'd be having a few easy schoons of his favourite local bitter while he caught up with mates over a bit of healthy conversation He even came straight from work with his laptop bag slung over his right shoulder, with all intention to...

3 March, 2017. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Arriving from Malta in the years after World War II, Cenzo Farrugia quickly found work throwing shit into a skip by down by the current site of Sydney's Luna Park. Years passed and the former merchant sailor saved up enough money to finally get himself a slice of the local property market, buying in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When it comes to bragging, local bloke Lewis Gurr (26) has got a few different yarns he can trot out. For one, he was listed as in the possible and probables for the under 16's state Aussie rules side in 2006. That, and the fact that he once met Ryan Moloney (Toadie from Neighbours) at the Carindale Westfield Boost Juice...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After being inspired by countless publicly-educated, working-class and Catholic rugby union players, a local polo star has decided to own up to himself and his teammates by coming out to them in a touching ceremony at the Betoota Racecourse this afternoon. Calling a team meeting late last week, Connor Sampson asked for privacy and understand...