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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...

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...

21 December, 2014. 14:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDER and Betoota local, Alex Whippett, has appeared on the global internet sensation Humans of New York - only a day after running in to Hamish Blake. Whippett was in town for the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Monster Energy Buck off at Madison Square Garden this week, where he placed...

25 June, 2014. 12:14 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The man was drinking at the Betoota Hotel Said to have consumed over sixteen standard drinks In the moments after buying the pheromone wipe, he instantly became "fuckable" says woman. A VISIBLY INTOXICATED local man says he had intercourse with a transient woman after purchasing a pheromone wipe from a hotel restroom. Witnesses say...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PERTH MAN Kevin Tilley has achieved what many leading experts consider to be the impossible. After seven tentative years of friendship - he finally made his best friend, Kaycee Lane, his girlfriend. "It didn't happen overnight," says Mr Tilley. "In the books I read, it said relationships take time to mature and grow," "I spent seven years in...