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6 August, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local punter, Greg Waterman (35) has spent the last 12 hours placing wildly unfounded bets on extremely obscure Olympic events. "It started with the swimming. I like to think that I know a bit about Australia's Olympic strongsuit," he says. "The ping pong was a bit more of an exciting bet. I really was doing some...

3 August, 2016. 12:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE LATEST VICTIMS IN THE great Australia media cull could be two of the nation's most controversial television presenters, with the Nine Network's replacing The Today Show with two retirees reading from the Daily Telegraph in bed. After a string of inappropriate statements regarding transgender Australians, Muslim migrants and the wider QUILTBAG community,...

3 August, 2016 10:35 MERV HARRIS | Property | CONTACT The Advocate can exclusively report this afternoon that Australia’s iconic Sydney Opera House looks to be sold to a Chinese investment conglomerate, who plan to develop the site into a harbourside apartment complex. A spokesperson for Property NSW, Keiren Baird (23) spoke to The Betoota Advocate on the condition of anonymity. "The handover went through this morning,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DECIDING WHO SHOULD BE PATIENT zero is proving to be the biggest hurdle for the producers of Network 10's floundering springtime offering, The Bachelor, as they toy with the idea of introducing chlamydia amongst contestants. Considered by most as being a 'rite-of-passage' sexually transmitted infection that's widely abundant wherever young people are forced to live together,...

2 August, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SLITHERING HIS SICKLY PALE body into the back of a taxi last night, local printing and packaging specialist Peter Cole could hardly believe his luck as receptionist Tina slotted in through the other door. She's the smiling face at the front desk, the kind ear that pretends to care about what some...

31 July, 2016. 13:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JOHN WHISTLER HATED AMY WINEHOUSE when she was alive, but in death, he says she's one of his biggest inspirations and musical influences. He finds Pink Floyd to be dull, says Led Zeppelin are the biggest plagiarists in modern music, but he adamant Lynyrd Skynyrd should be held on a similar musical...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Johnny Walker announced today that they're targeting people who have four-car garages, above ground spas from Clark Rubber and jet skis with their new Blue Label & Cola cans. The product is set to launch later this year with quite a hefty price tag. Recommended retail starts at up to $25 each in every six...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ZOOKEEPERS AT DUBBO'S WESTERN Plains Zoo are delighted to announce this morning that scientists from the nearby TAFE college have successfully taught Glenn, a four-year-old juvenile gorilla, to read at a Daily Telegraph-level. Named after Narromine-born cricketer Glenn McGrath, the gorilla was the first to be born at the zoo. His birth heralded a new...

28 July, 2016. 12:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE ONLY COMFORT THAT Michael Southwell had after he left work yesterday was that there was still 15 Bitter tins in the fridge left over from the weekend. Leaving work, he ducked into his postcode's tavern around the corner of his New Farm Queenslander. Something he hasn't done since last year. Because at...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In a landmark decision for the River City, iconic watering-hole The Brown Snake Hotel is the first Brisbane pub that will now allow entry to male patrons not wearing R.M Williams boots. Local publican, Gorden Langer says management came to the decision last year when US Navy warship USS Blue Ridge sailed into Brisbane to take part in joint military...