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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a special time in Daniel Frost's life where a thousand dollars would've been life changing - today it's the difference between fabric or leather. "I think we should get leather, it will go with the rug better," she said. "Actually, look at the floral print. We could just get a new rug, what do...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact As the path to the 2019 election hots up, Labor leader Bill Shorten has put his best foot forward and held a press conference to debut his cool new soul patch. Shorten began the press conference by asking for a moment of silence for rapper XXXTentacion before taking questions but asking the press to do...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Society | Contact Chinese technology company Huawei could have the answers disgruntled Australians are looking for when it comes to our third-world quality internet services. However, anti-espionage units down in Canberra are preventing the tech giant from connecting us, all for our own safety, apparently. They seem to be missing one key thing though. In a developed...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact He waved goodbye from the kitchenette door as he wrapped a scarf around his thin neck, meaning that Amy Wainwright was now alone. Instagram tells her that friends are only a block away having the time of their young lives but on the 16th floor of Remienko Trade Centre Building 4 - the 25-year-old is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A city worker who says he was blessed genetically with a Colgate smile has spoken exclusively to our reporters about his rough working-class upbringing on our town's city limits - and all the things that go with it. Alastair Ross-Williams recalled an afternoon in 2001 where the police brought him home to his parents Betoota Downs Queenslander in a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In a touching coming-of-age story, a local father has bared witness to his primary-school-aged son fill up the wagon using the high-flow bowser for the first time this morning. Just prior to dropping his boy off a St Fanning's Primary in Betoota Heights, grazier Darcy Fogle flicked on the blinker and pulled into the Castlereagh...

Ingrid Doulton | Lifestyle Editor | Contact Though she's been on many a jog this year, Marcey D'Amato has never smiled or laughed while she's on one. Neither has she playfully giggled after being caught in a sudden downpour. Save for the few times she and her pals have sheepishly laughed their way and stopped four busy lanes of traffic to get to their Uber,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact If it's not broke, don't fix it. That's the message that the community is getting from the Betoota Heights Ultimate Frisbee Association (BHUFA) today after breaking the news that champion speed skater Steven Bradbury is returning to their annual luncheon as guest speaker. For the third year in a row. Speaking exclusively to The Advocate this morning ahead of the July...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Editor | CONTACT A local pub has faced criticism this evening after advertising a reasonably standard priced jug as a ‘Welcome Back Special.’ The Dog Whistle and Fiddle, a recently renovated and rebranded version of The Clock Hotel in Betoota’s French Quarter, has been blasted for asking patrons to come into their venue on the back of a promotion offering 20 dollar...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter merchant banker visited his Betoota Downs farm over the weekend and frowned. For some reason, it hadn't rain on his rolling two-hundred-acre lifestyle block for close to a year. If it weren't for the bales of Mitchell grass he bought at the start of the year, Miles John-Whitford would've had to pith the...