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KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT In breaking international news, a local girl is wowing her Instagram followers today with the stunning revelation that cappuccinos in London look very similar to the cups of coffee served here in Australia. In a sequence of Instagram stories seen by our reporter, The Advocate can confirm that Betoota personal trainer and prominent micro-influencer Sara Brady-Banks (26)...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT The Simpsons have done it again, it can be confirmed today. The minds behind the Springfield show have once again predicted the future. Famous for predicting things like the Donald Trump Presidency, the spicy cough saga and Lady Gaga playing the Super Bowl, the Simpsons have somehow foreseen the result of this year's Ashes - some twenty years...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton has rolled his eyes at the prospect of another Royal Commission, this time into the Department of Home Affairs and the potential murkiness around the contracts they handed out over the past decade. Speaking to delegates from a number of non-government agencies today is Brisbane, Mr Dutton couldn't help but avoid...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT If you had a pin, and were in Megan Grace's 2014 Ford Focus, and you dropped it right now, you could likely hear it's impact on the abrasive carpet below. This comes as the automobile makes its way past the outer suburbs of Toowoomba, with a bunch of young revellers from Betoota currently making their way home. Nearly...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A Bendigo man is today facing the shame of having to ask one of the youngest blokes on his team for a massive favour.  Derrick Diddly from the jewel of Victoria’s goldfields has had to stump up and ask one of the young fellas for a lift to their game this week.  Normally one of the first blokes to dedicate...

HENRY PARNELL | Motoring |CONTACT Betoota Heights real estate agent and Audi Q8 owner, Mitchell Finely has today reached his limit with pedestrians using zebra crossings and not thanking him for the favour he is so kindly doing them by stopping. Speaking shortly after a twenty-something clutching a flat white, sporting activewear and leading a comically small labra-cocker-pug-a-poo ‘dog’, used the crossing and didn’t...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT As the nation prepares for the kick off the FIFA Women's World Cup, the talisman of the Australian team has been given a talking too. The head physiotherapist for the Matildas has politely asked Sam Kerr to take it a little bit easy for the next couple of weeks. Not in the way she plays, but in the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT After years and years of build up, the FIFA Women's World Cup has finally arrived on Australian soil. The global sporting event is set to kick off this evening, with the excitable nation eagerly awaiting confirmation that it is indeed Tilly Time. The tournament kicks of in New Zealand at 5pm, before the Matildas take on Ireland in...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A fierce debate has erupted in a WhatsApp chat this evening as a group of boys begin making plans for the greatest concert of their life. Having fought tooth and nail over the past few weeks to secure prime tickets to the Foo Fighters stadium spectacular that’s coming to Brisbane in December, local Betoota band shirt geeks...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | Contact Betoota Ponds based allied health professional Tamara Hill (33) has had to sit down on a public bench and think about her life today. The sitting and thinking comes after Hill visited Darryl and Cheryl Parsons’ Betoota Heights Newsagency to buy her weekly TattsLotto QuickPick. Hill, who started buying QuickPicks approximately once a month late last year, has...