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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT While many Australians in their early thirties are having a serious think about starting a family or selling the odd organ to afford property, Andrew Kelso (31) has other more pressing matters on his mind.  Instead of counting down days until Christmas, Kelso had much more maturely been counting down the days until the third Tom Holland Spiderman film...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A local Triple J listener has capitalised on a visit to his hometown, stopping past his old school uniform shop to buy a new pair of kicks. Over the weekend it’s believed 25-year-old musician / artist / barista Jamie Clements, stopped into the uniform store at Betoota’s St Bruce’s Catholic College and made some updates on his...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT If there's one thing that's certain about getting older, it's usually that you can expect to get incredibly pedantic about something that makes absolutely no sense to anyone. For local nana Gil Hart, she's chosen to channel her entire energy into keeping an ordered kitchen, which typically involves her finding some excuse to get up from the couch whenever a...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Christmas has come both literally and metaphorically for lovers of retail therapy as the world’s multi-billion-dollar retailers have released findings that it is time to ‘Treat Ourselves’ this Christmas. The term ‘treat yo self’ became part of the modern vocabulary in 2011, in the fourth season of sitcom Parks and Recreation. A whole ten years later and the humorous...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Acting Prime Minister and man with more nicknames than all the members of D12, Scotty from Marketing aka The Liar From The Shire, has learnt he’s been a very bad boy this year as Santa has gifted him a wind turbine for Christmas. Known for keeping tabs on who has been naughty and who has been nice since before...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A coal mining veteran from the town of Singleton is hard at work this afternoon, doing his best to convince a telehealth professional that he hasn’t been bitten by the Sydney Sneeze. Sitting comfortably in his Paramount powered recliner sofa, with one eye on the cricket and only half an attention on the phone, Dennis Liddell (52),...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT Twas’ the night before Christmas and all through the land,  The country sat and admired a man so beautifully tanned, There under the spotlights Anthony Callea belted a tune, And by the second verse he had made the whole nation swoon. Jaws are dropping across the Nation this evening, as 7-time Carols by Candlelight superstar Anthony Callea steps out to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT For the 21st time in as many years, this year's Christmas gifts haven't even gotten close to the excitement that came with the holographic bright green front cover of the 2002 Guinness Book Of World Records. While mum nearly got close a few years ago with a gift voucher for the Australian Geographic store in the local Westfield,...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT Eyebrows have been raised far and wide across a backyard barbeque this afternoon, after a newly crowned boyfriend decided to introduce himself to a family as, ‘The Ripped Jeans Guy’. Strutting out across the Sir Walter lawn of a Betoota Heights home, it’s believed local gym junkie and WRX enthusiast Jackson Carney, almost tripped over himself thanks...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A family get together has been in turmoil this week, after a young Betoota woman was horrified to learn she’d be spending the entire day alongside a ghost of sexy times past. Answering the doorbell at approximately 11:46am Sunday morning, The Advocate understands Betoota Lakes bachelorette Emily Sutton, was shocked to discover her cousin Jessica’s ‘new beau’...