The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When you combine the most crowded flight path in the world (BNE>SYD>MEL), with the fact that Sydney Airport is now subject to a 11pm curfew imposed by rapidly gentrifying local council, home to people who feel entitled to complain about the fact that they can hear aeroplanes from their bedroom in a house they bought next...

15 April, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact LEGISLATION PASSING OVER THE DESK of Clive Palmer will no longer be covered in pencil and eraser marks because the Member for Fairfax has been awarded an honorary pen licence from his alma mater, The University of Queensland. Since the happy-go-lucky mining magnate entered the House of Representatives, his fellow parliamentarians have...

15 April, 2016. 10:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An entire Lebanese television crew have been shot dead during an alleged kidnapping of two children in Brisbane today. The four-member crew was among nine people, including the children's Lebanese father, Falli Salkneer, who were shot and killed by police over the incident this morning. Surveillance video purportedly shows the moment members of a so-called...

14 April, 2o16. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact REALITY TELEVISION SHOWS SUCH AS Married At First Sight and other like it may soon be forced to display a warning label prior to broadcast under sweeping new measures put forward by the Attorney-General of Australia. A disclaimer-type caution may also be on the cards to outline that the following presentation will...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local man, Toolio Runamuckas (51), only bets on sure things. The 2nd-generation Greek-Australian says that the Greeks invented greyhound racing, and any other form of gambling that Australians enjoy losing money on. The only reason he doesn't seem to lose money on the punt is because he's Greek, and instinctively knows what a winner is. Aside from...

13 April, 2016. 18:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CONVICTED DRUG MULE Schapelle Corby has reached out to alleged Australian kidnapper Tara Brown, who was charged by authorities overnight in Lebanon after the former journalist tried to snatch two children off the street with the help of her team. On 8 October 2004, Corby, her brother and two friends flew from Brisbane...

10 April, 2016. 13:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The youngest member of Federal Parliament has today asked Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for a "couple of days" off work, so that he can join his hometown mates on their annual "Splendour Bender". It appears the 26-year-old Assistant Minister for Innovation has been having trouble coming to terms with the fact that his...

13 April, 2016. 12:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A REPORT COMMISSIONED BY the Federal Teachers Federation has outlined an alarming figure - that almost every voter in the country has heard about the Gonski Report in one way or another, but they "don't really know" what it is. In addition to this disturbing trend, the study also discovered that it's...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local woman, Claudia Harris (27), is from Melbourne. Speaking to The Betoota Advocate today, Claudia says she really misses the coffee scene in Melbourne and the fierce Australian Rules tribalism that only really exists in Melbourne. "Well, as someone who grew up in Melbourne, I often wonder why places like Brisbane and Sydney are so similar...

The following article is an actual recount of the Betoota Advocate's recent visit to the New England region of North-West New South Wales. We would thank both federal candidates for not only their kind and generous hospitality, but also for such unfettered access to their campaigns. Warning: Explicit language. EDITORIAL | CONTACT On the 26th of June, 2013 the Australian political landscape changed forever. The man...