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EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA new feature of Spotify Wrapped has today cruelly reminded a local woman about her failed relationship, by offering some brightly packaged snapshots of her darkest months. Excitedly taking to her Spotify after seeing news that Wrapped 2023 had been released, Emma Burman, 26, was looking forward to seeing information she already knew when she found herself experiencing the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An Irishman who recently arrived in our cosmopolitan desert community has been left scratching his head as to why men dressed head-to-toe in orange are up on the roof of a local house. In addition to that, Nollaig Ó Meadhra told The Advocate he saw them cutting up fallen trees and helping themselves to the...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactLetting out a small pout as her phone flickers to black after three hours of mindless Tik Tok scrolling, Clara Symes lets out a long, exaggerated sigh to signal to her boyfriend that it’s time to pay her attention. But being equally engrossed in flicking through his Tik Tok page, which he did so at rapid speed and at...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACTA Betoota born-Sydney based man is having a quarter-life crisis tonight as he scours the internet in search of a new place to live. Despite having a sound paying job, a sensible weekly budget, and no penchant for smoking or gambling his pay-check away, 29-year-old hospo manager Ryan Mogg is struggling to find a rental that won’t...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactMajor introvert Darcey Boyd has found herself having a blissful shopping spree this week, with reports she was able to spend more than five minutes in a store without being hit with a ‘hey babe!” Speaking to The Advocate (via a series of Instagram dms), Darcey says that when it comes to clothes shopping, she loves nothing more than...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Located in the centre of the Old City District dining precinct, Betoota's most famous curry joint GET IT INDIA has a lot to brag about. As 13 time winners of the Western Queensland South Asian Eatery Awards, including Best Regional Bhef, Best Korma and Best Naan Bread Price-To-Portion Ratio, this much loved local restaurant is an ornament to the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local burglar has used malignant short-term leasing app Airbnb to search for homes that will be vacant this weekend so he can go and steal everything that isn't bolted down. If the home is big enough, the burglar explained to our reporter that it might even be worth stripping the copper wire out of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A couple of all-time legends put on a brave face last night as they assembled down at the Gutshot Brumby Hotel in Betoota Heights to farewell one of the best who's off to the North Pole today to work in Santa's Toy Factory for the next four weeks. In the center of the circle of...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTA mid-thirties friendship circle has mustered up what little enthusiasm they have left as the last couple to get engaged finally announces their big news. One of those weird groups of a dozen odd schoolmates who managed to stay friends into adulthood, the friendship circle, known via their group chat name as La Familia, has been through a lot...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Betoota builder, Dolph Kennyson (62) has today experienced the unfamiliar sensation of laying cable for the first time since Keating was Prime Minister. It's not that he hasn't laid a number 2 in the 26 years since then. It's just that he hasn't laid cable since then. After exiting the blue sauna just after smoko this morning, Dolph had a...