Australian farmers turn on Tony Abbott for his “Fedora Akubra”
21 February, 2015. 15:30
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
PRIME MINISTER Tony Abbott has come under fire from his National Party colleagues for choosing to wear a fedora to a Lightning Ridge property this afternoon.
Coalition backbenchers have suggested that the PM is "out-of-touch" with rural affairs - outlined by his choice to don the inappropriate hat.
It's been a horror couple...
“Trafficking for personal use” – Biggest drug bust in the history of law enforcement
20 February, 2015. 11:00
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
AN ICONIC QUEENSLAND FOOTBALLER has been charged with supplying cocaine and accused of being part of a cocaine trafficking "syndicate” operating in Queensland.
“The CCC will allege the three men and one woman arranged for the supply of cocaine for personal use or to on-supply cocaine to friends and colleagues between June...
Australians panic over new “Chinese headlines” on popular newspaper
19 February, 2015. 11:30
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Residents of Australia's largest city and the surrounding, less important, regional areas - are today in a state of shock, after being exposed to a cultural shift that many are not ready for.
Feelings of xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment have once again replaced acceptance and tolerance as Australians panic over what looks...
Nightclub Photo Guy Realises That The Girls Are Only Smiling At The Camera
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Devastating revelations in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley this week have seen one man questioning both his self-confidence and self-worth among the people he believed to be his friends.
Hamish Bloom, a 27-year old from the city's northern suburbs, has spent the last eight years believing that his easily dispensable position as a nightclub photographer was one that...
#BoycottBali shows that even bogans are opposed to capital punishment
17 February, 2015. 15:00
ALEXUS CORBETT | Travel writer| Contact
Bali. The Australian holiday hotspot looks to experience a serious slump in tourism this Easter.
Indonesia's imminent executions of Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - two low level pawns in a Trans-Asian drug trafficking operation - has prompted a huge outcry in all forms of news media and politics.
However it is in social...
Three universities to offer hospitality degrees disguised as Arts qualifications from next year
17 February, 2015. 11:45
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
THREE BOTTOM-DRAWER universities will secretly begin offering degrees geared towards an unhappy life in the hospitality industry disguised as "soft qualifications in humanities".
The move was prompted by the large number of Arts graduates that find themselves realistically unemployable at the end of their degree.
The University of Notre Dame, Australian Catholic University and the University...
Amazing new study reveals that Manus Island is a “fucking shithole”
16 February, 2015. 15:30
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
An independent survey conducted by an American global information and measurement company, Nielsen, has set about disposing myths regarding the liveability on Australia's controversial asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island - just days after Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended his government's record on mandatory detention.
The results were resounding amongst guards,...
IT Specialist Impresses Valentine By Disputing Mainstream Account Of 9/11 On First Date
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
North Betoota man, Chris Frith, says that the idea of once again spending Christmas alone is not something that bothers him. In fact it is the last thing that bothers him.
Chris is an adherent of the 9/11 Truth movement, just one of many theorists from around the world who dispute the mainstream account of the...
VIDEO: Senator Jacqui Lambie talks about going pig-shooting with Pauline Hanson
11 February, 2015. 19:15
EDITORIAL | Contact
IN YET another exclusive two-on-one from The Betoota Advocate's recent trip to Canberra, Senator Jacqui Lambie gives our journalists the run down on her relationship with Pauline Hanson.
The rogue senator was able to confirm her love for "busting bacon" - spruiking her markswomanship skills.
Although Lambie said she shares little in common with the former incarcerated xenophobe,...
Private School Kid Secures Job Based Entirely On Own Merit
11 February, 2015. 17:06
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
IN WHAT may come as a surprise to many, an underachieving private school student has landed a job based entirely on his own merit.
Castle Cove native Rupert "Henry" Jasper-Humphreys decided to go against the grain and apply for a job without asking his parents to "hook him up" late last week.
The 26-year-old former Bing Lee catalogue dropper...
