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INGRID DOULTON | Community and social | Contact In the wake of the 212 drug-related arrests at Sydney's City Limits music festival over the weekend, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has today announced that the state of New South Wales has been left with no choice but introduce a new model to combat drug use at music festivals. The implementation of new 3D scanners looks to...

6 January, 2014. 12:34 IMRAN GASHKORI | Editor-at-large | Contact AN armchair critic of the Australian cricket team has urged the players to "get up close and personal" with the Indians today at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Speaking from his blonde brick apartment in Cronulla, home to Sydney's last segregated public toilet, the obviously drunk and husky man says that our spearhead...

5 January, 2015. 17:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Whispers surrounding the love life of one of the world's favourite Royal playboys have been confirmed today - through a leaked Snapchat message sent around by the young woman in question. Chelsea Ferguson, the famous "Social Media Stripper" - who has risen to fame through strip club tours around the U.K and United...

3 January, 2015. 08:59 DARRYL SEYMOUR | Gossip and Music | CONTACT If you haven't heard the song yet. Listen to it. Recorded in September and released on New Year's Eve, the Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaboration is billed as the most important record this century. A perfect fusion of modern hip hop production and 1960's rock and roll. Titled "Only One" -...

4 January, 2015. 15:15 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE ABC has been secretly planning the cancellation of its entire news and current affairs department for at least a month – with their axing likely before the end of this year financial year, a few sources claim. On Friday, Fairfax Media revealed the national broadcaster has been covertly developing a reality television show...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT "Yeah, I'll be out in a second... just have a seat" It's the painful words that no one wants to hear. Particularly a 42 year-old accountant who is beginning to feel ashamed by his habitual marijuana use. Local father of three, Matthew Geyer, says as a 42-year middle aged father of three - he has a hard enough...

2 January, 2014. 8:41 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PEOPLE around the country were deeply moved by the news this morning that Peter FitzSimons is finally ready to admit he is bald. The former Wallaby great and lauded historian-turned-author ended years of speculation this morning on Twitter, saying he is "finally being true to himself". Rumors that FitzSimons was bald began to circulate...

1 January, 2015. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Less than a month after Premier Mike Baird refused to indicate just where over $13 billion from the sale of electricity assets was to be spent, a report has been leaked highlighting plans to extend Sydney’s rail network all the way to Bondi Beach. With $5 billion set aside for the Western Harbour...

31 December, 2016. 15:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S been a big year for us at The Betoota Advocate, from our various appearances on the ABC' to our partnership with HarperCollins to publish our first of many almanacks. We thank you for helping us grow from a modest country rag to a national news source - covering the biggest stories...

    31 December, 2014. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   This festive season is shaping up to be a desperate time for many dog breeders, as increasing pressure from animal rights extremists has seen a sharp decline in the sales for many traditional Australian puppy farms. “It’s been a tough year for all of us, the sales are way way down in what has traditionally...