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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Stepping out of his new office on Betoota's leafy Upper West Side, Connor Wales thought he'd be having a few easy schoons of his favourite local bitter while he caught up with mates over a bit of healthy conversation He even came straight from work with his laptop bag slung over his right shoulder, with all intention to...

3 March, 2017. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Arriving from Malta in the years after World War II, Cenzo Farrugia quickly found work throwing shit into a skip by down by the current site of Sydney's Luna Park. Years passed and the former merchant sailor saved up enough money to finally get himself a slice of the local property market, buying in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When it comes to bragging, local bloke Lewis Gurr (26) has got a few different yarns he can trot out. For one, he was listed as in the possible and probables for the under 16's state Aussie rules side in 2006. That, and the fact that he once met Ryan Moloney (Toadie from Neighbours) at the Carindale Westfield Boost Juice...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After being inspired by countless publicly-educated, working-class and Catholic rugby union players, a local polo star has decided to own up to himself and his teammates by coming out to them in a touching ceremony at the Betoota Racecourse this afternoon. Calling a team meeting late last week, Connor Sampson asked for privacy and understand...

28 February, 2017. 9:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact It's enough to drive even the most blasé bloke up the wall and make him wonder if the person he's interacting with has rocks in their head. An intern at Betoota Base Hospital has been getting a large strong flat white every morning since getting the prize posting to the desert capital...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite studying a wishy-washy journalism degree, a number of first-year students have tried to get their tertiary education experience off on the right foot by taking down comprehensive, colour-coded and detailed lecture notes in each lecture they attend. The same number of students also still haven't discovered that lecture attendance isn't compulsory for many of their first...

26 February. 2017. 18:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Bouncing between foster homes until his 18th birthday, one local man once considered himself to be underprivileged. Never really knowing his parents but knowing the sound of a belt being taken off all too well, John Petersburg of South Betoota explained to The Advocate for all his shortcomings and internal crises, he still...

25 February, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "I'm here for a good time, not a long time," said Emile Davenport as she down the last of her vodka sunrise and raised her eyebrows at the barman for another. The 29-year-old mergers and acquisitions specialist joined the team at Bell Potter's Betoota office half way through last year and her bosses have...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The employees of Betoota's third-fastest-growing mezzanine boutique marketing firms smile and give their boss a double thumbs up whenever they see him. Not because of his ability to steer the company from strength to strength, not because he smashes quarterly profit predictions and makes the investors happy. They love him because he made sure that one...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The local chapter of the Australian Country Women's Association is being observed by several government agencies, it has today been confirmed. It is believed that the ATO, ASIO and The Australian Bureau Of Statistics have been keeping a close eye on the Betoota CWA branch, in an effort to learn better investigative skills and improve their practices of...