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24 April, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER |Editor-at-large| Contact A South Betoota shopkeeper had his faith in humanity tested last night as he watched the TV Week Logie Awards from behind the counter of his local mixed business. Walter Kowalczyk often watches a number of commercial television programs of an evening while he works, giving the 65-year-old an all-encompassing knowledge of what's hot and what's...

23 April, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A struggling South Betootan TAFE student has revealed to The Advocate this afternoon that she'd be open to raising money by shaving her head - but only if it was in support of her own rampant alcoholism. Citing that most charities are just rip off merchants that play on the heart strings of...

22 April, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Attending the GumNutterz Festival out on the Betoota city limits last weekend, Greg Portman was eager to shed the Tarocash uniform he's forced to wear to work each day for something a little bit more befitting of his left-leaning politics. Wearing cut-off jean shorts and a handsome, joyful and charming vest complete...

ERROLL PARKER| Editor-at-large | Contact A serial piss taker has faced Betoota Local Court this afternoon after police discovered over three hundred separate bottles of piss in the bedroom of his West Betoota home. Charged with four counts of gross indecency and obstructing a police investigation, Glenn Porter, 32, pleaded not guilty to all charges, telling the court that what he's doing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Punctuating each sentence with the 'Oi, but seriously,' prefix, a local Dorper stud manager asked the same bloke how his was last night down at The Betoota Hotel a record for times - in the same conversation. Nathan Decanter often speaks highly of the sheep business, telling the cattlemen who also frequent the bottom pub...

19 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact You'd be mistaken for thinking 'Moree Man' was the next comic book hero to be brought to the silver screen, but you wouldn't be too far wrong. Left on the cutting room floor of the BBC's groundbreaking nature documentary Planet Earth II, was a rare courtship display filmed by the British crew...

19 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A campaign by Coogee residents, in Sydney's eastern provinces, to erect Irish Gaeilge street signs has won over local council this week, heralding a new era of acceptance in the region. Donagh Moloney, originally of Letterkenny in the Irish Republic, emigrated to Australia in the early 1990s and has called Coogee home...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After the recent discovery of oil in the Diamantina Shire, the Betoota BP fuel and diner has today announced that the prices for unleaded are the cheapest they have ever been since Petero Civoniceva first started played for the Brisbane Broncos. The service station has paid homage to this by plastering a photo of Petero's head on...

17 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The licensee of the Betoota Sailing Club has noticed business has been on the rise in recent weeks, however, the clientele has shifted away from being a more family orientated venue to an almost university-sports-club type vibe. "It was a mystery to the staff until I had a barback ask if he...

14 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Darren Tomlinson spent the first 40 years of his humble life in the vast, but ultimately forgiving Queensland desert - where he learned to say please and thank you. However, like most young his age, curiosity got the better of him. Rather than falling for the many flash ringer's tale of Europe, complete...