The Nation

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACTThe release of Eminem's much anticipated 12th studio album has failed to create the effect that the 51 year old man had hoped for. The rapper’s 12th studio album The Death Of Slim Shady, claims to be the final return of Eminem's edgy alter ego character 'Slim Shady' that had Baby Boomers in a moral panic in the late...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA Betoota Heights woman who’s always insisted she ‘grew up rough’ has raised some eyebrows this week, after making a few remarks about the snow season in Thredbo. Claire Geraldine, 28, has long attested that her family struggled a lot when she was a kid, but has never really elaborated on what that kind of ‘struggling’, that involves -...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In what has become a cherished yet predictably frustrating weekend ritual, local software developer Tim Hargreaves (32) enjoys a weekly phone call with his father, Donald Hargreaves (64), during which he is subjected to a torrent of Sky News Australia talking points. Tim, who holds a master's degree in environmental science and lives in a...

KEITH T. DENNETT | REAL LIFE | CONTACTA generous bowl of buttery mashed potato is proving to be worth its weight in gold this evening as a local genius buys himself protection insurance from an awful hangover. Eight beers deep into his Saturday night, Brett McKenny, a 33 year old solar panel salesman from the Ponds has decided to absolutely go for it tonight,...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTA uni graduation took place at Betoota Anglican University today and The Advocate would like to pay our respects to the survivors.Known as the longest possible thing a person can go through, after life itself, university graduation ceremonies are known for arduous director's cut durations with an appearance of your family member and the funny hats being the...

KEITH T. DENNETT | REAL LIFE | CONTACTA former high school bully has emerged from the swamps of Instagram this week to announce he now really cares about helping other blokes fulfil their potential. Tyler Goggins, a 30 year old Betoota Ponds plumber and now podcast host, has gone live on social media to preach his new brand of men’s wellness, a cause he...

KEITH T. DENNETT | REAL LIFE | CONTACTDarby Humphries has been travelling Europe for the past six weeks, and don’t all his friends know about it. An accountant by trade, Darby was able to broker a luxurious six week winter holiday this year, given his father is the head of the firm that he currently works for. After spending the first week smashing £10 pints...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local whingeing and sunburnt pom is today still having a cry over the fact that his national side sucks so much at soccer that it would completely bottle it in the Euros final twice in a row. This comes nearly two full days after England lost 2-1 to Spain in the final of the European Championship in Germany,...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactJack Black has today announced on his Instagram that Tenacious D will be officially rebranding to Softcock D, after he and his creative partner, Kyle Gass, chose to cut their world tour short, due to a comment Gass made about the assassination attempt on Trump. During their live show in Sydney on Sunday, Gass was presented with a cake...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA woman running errands in Betoota CBD has found herself being converted to christianity this morning, after being yelled at by a street preacher with an obnoxiously loud microphone.  Jasmine Dawson, 27, says she’d simply ducked into the CBD to grab a few items from Big W, when she found himself walking directly into the path of a bloke...