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EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT A millennial who long ago gave up hopes of ever owning a property has now had to contend with something she never thought she’d experience in her lifetime– a rental crisis. Jessie Bates admits that although she thought it could be a problem for future generations, she hadn’t expected it to happen so quickly. Stating that she...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT A local woman has reached breaking point after a particularly stressful day at work, it’s reported. Jess Simpson tells The Advocate that she’d been looking forward to coming home and curling up with some wine and junk food when she spied a rolled-up packet of chips on the counter. Eager to polish off the rest of the...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In a piece of feel-good news the whole family can enjoy, dad is happy to report that his chillis have been loving this rain. After the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed she ain’t dry, the spring rains have been a welcome relief to horticulturists of all experience levels, including Betoota Heights dad Frank Lombardo (55). The sort of old fella who’s...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Proving they are king of the beach since ‘82, local surfie Hayden ‘Clucky’ Cunningham (54) asserted authority on the blow-ins that keep his town alive today by stripping down to the nutty at the beach showers. The closest coastal town to Betoota as the crow flies, the South Australian beach town of Glumbucket Heads, is well known for its...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A local man’s first workout of the year is about to enter ‘Beast Mode’, boosted by the thumping sounds of a DMX heavy gym playlist. After spending most of the festive season laying horizontal on his parents couch, it’s understood former country boy turned city professional, Brent Hodges, decided to make a homecoming return to his favourite...

COL DUNCAN | Local | CONTACT In what has become quite a common occurence within social circles around the country, local durry scab Jayson Reid (32) has made the pivotal shift to scabbing hits of other people’s vapes. The increased trend of smoking disposable vapes in favour of a classic analogue durry, has meant that the rise of the vapour scab was inevitable. “There’s just no other way around it”...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In a year so shitty that regional journalists have no shortage of ways to describe the true extent of its shitiness, one man thinks 2021 was bad enough for him to actually enjoy himself on New Year's Eve. Jay Davenport (32) of the Betoota Flight Path District had such a shitty year that he decided to absolutely send it...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Dog lovers around the world are jumping for joy as National Geographic has identified a new breed of dog that makes noise complaints on New Year’s Eve. Unlike other breeds of dog, this species walks on two legs, appears human-like and is sometimes even gainfully employed, although are often retired with nothing to do now that all the taps...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact There are few things someone who knows nothing about pregnancy can get away with asking before their limited knowledge is found out, and one of those is the topic of weird cravings. It’s a known fact that pregnant women crave strange things, but as one pregnant woman is explaining to The Advocate this afternoon, that doesn’t mean that it’s...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT On the quest for love, sometimes you get your heartbroken and sometimes you're the heart breaker - neither pleasant for either party. For local woman Isabelle Buckham, a year of using dating apps has taught her many life lessons, including that nobody goes through life without hurting someone. Having ghosted someone and been ghosted, fought for an emotionally unavailable partner...