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FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact In a timely validation of the viability of commercial space travel, a rocket entirely built and crewed by no-win-no-fee lawyers is due to blast off in early 2021 on a historic mission to Mars.   The proposed voyage follows the discovery of water on the surface of the red planet, a substance which forms the basis of most ‘slip...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In the Betoota CBD you will find The Royal North Colony Hotel est 1891, a timeless venue renowned for its thimble sized heritage rooms that remind you most people used to be about four foot tall. From the koi fish pond to the backpackers lugging dirty sheets for less than the price the koi fish cost to keep them...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact When young couple Stella and Jamie Arkus decided to have a garage sale, they were hoping to clear up some clutter and make a little extra cash; they did not expect to find themselves on the wrong side of the authorities.  However, their ignorance soon landed them in hot water as they unwittingly violated a federal law prohibiting...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Local man Sam Hackett is smart. Like really smart. So smart, he’s bought a Kindle, so has something to do on his fifteen minute bus ride to work other than peruse his phone like an imbecile. He does prefer to read physical books, as there’s just something extra special about inhaling dust, skin particles and deteriorating paper, or what people...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It seems an Acknowledgement Of First Nation's Sovereignty in a work email signature wasn't enough to protect one of Betoota's most progressive start-up CEOs from making an excruciating gaffe this afternoon. Cathy Purdoch is the founder of SQUIRTLE a culinary condiments delivery service, that is well known in the tech hub of Betoota's Old City District for their commitment...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by parents of high school-aged kids right across the Harbour City has today found that every single teenager in Sydney claims to have either met the Kid LAROI, or know someone who knows him well. Hailing from the South Sydney-suburb of Waterloo, and raised between the city and Broken Hill, the Koori hip hop sensation is...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The people of Melbourne who like to enjoy a public holiday to celebrate the race that stops the nation are set to do so in relative peace this year - after the customary #NupToTheCup protests were called off. The protests that usually involve a few hundred people brave enough to take their Twitter activism to the streets were...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT When you’re drunkenly walking, the last thing you need is to run into someone from high school. Especially if they were the chirpy, slightly annoying dux who’d get up and preach about the dangers of peer pressure and alcohol every assembly. Unfortunately for local man Robert Zeikus ,  the shame he felt drunkenly staggering past people on their way to work...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact In good news for owners of the ubiquitous Mitsubishi Magna, police have finally arrested and charged a man responsible for stealing clearcoat from the popular 1990s-era car.  The first Australian-built Magna was released in 1985, although it wasn’t until the second generation was released in 1991 that the clearcoat crime spree began. The thefts have continued through to...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Melbourne local and Storm fanatic Brett Moore (33) has had what is very fair to call a ‘mixed bag’ of a year. “The way my Storm has played has been the jaffas in my mixed bag,” grinned a weary Moore as he donned his purple scarf.  “The lockdowns have been the chocolate-coated possum poo, my job has been a great...