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10 September, 2016. 10:15CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The writers of the iconic DC films and comic superhero franchise, Batman, have today confirmed that the long held myth that the character doesn't have any superpowers is actually incorrect. The fictional superhero of Batman has appeared in American comic books since first appearing in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, the character is also referred to by such...

7 September, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ENJOYING HIS FIRST HOLIDAY in nearly a decade, Michael McGarvey and his new wife thought it was time to pack up and the sample the easy life. Landing in Los Angeles last week, the 34-year-old television news producer quickly went to work switching off and seeing all the sights that tinsel town...

30 August, 2015 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Gene Wilder, the American actor and model who was made famous by the 'Condescending Wonka' meme, died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83. Millions of meme-creators around the world have paid tribute to Mr Wilder through meme tributes in the dark galleys of...

24 August, 2015 9:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT To the untrained eye, the brown coloured stone wedged in the south corner of the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla enclave looked nothing more than a decoration by keepers. But as soon as Rod Harley saw it, late last week, he knew his life was about to change. Fossilised. An instinct honed over 40 years of fossil hunting told him...

10 August, 2015. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF YOU TRIED TO complete your census online last night, chances are you weren't able to. Not because our current internet infrastructure was put in the ground when Australia's young men were still bayonetting the Japanese in South East Asia. Not because we weren't prepared for the millions of people who were...

22 July, 2016 14:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following both the Republican and Democratic Conventions, as well as the recent DNC wikileaks emails, political reporters from The Guardian are now trying their very best to cover the US Presidential election without acknowledging the fact that Donald Trump is almost a sure bet to win this thing. Speaking to the Betoota Advocate today, former...

19 July, 2016. 11:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TRIBUTES FROM AROUND THE world have been flowing in this morning after 26-year-old pop star Taylor Swift became the third female victim of the Kardashian family's rampage through popular culture. She was found late last night face down in a bowl of Fruit Loops at her Los Angeles home. Known primarily for either...

6 July, 2016. 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact With Western Governments around the world currently experiencing a concerning rise in populism and the return of once extinct protectionist movements, it seems the only thing that can manage to console the ever anxious voter is completely fabricated quotes attributed to Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was the Prime Minister...

4 July, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SWATHES OF CHILDREN ARE receiving counselling and thousands of other ordinary Australians were "extremely creeped out" by footage broadcast by the Seven Network that showed Oscar Pistorius walking around on his nubs. Originally aired on Seven's investigative journalism program Sunday Night, the highly confronting images of the disgraced athlete sent a shockwave...

29 June, 2016. 11:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL has confirmed that a party boat that went missing of Koh Samui in Thailand last month was intercepted off the coast of Christmas Island. A border protection source has told The Advocate a vessel was intercepted by the Navy in the early hours of Monday morning. In May, a Thai party...