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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the seven bottlenose dolphins that calls the town's only saltwater bore drain home has telepathically spoken to The Advocate via drugs this afternoon about the new reusable plastic bags at local supermarkets and what they might taste like. The Betoota Heights Woolworths is due to dump single-use plastic bags later this month in an...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Grace Sherlock toyed with the idea of walking around the block a few times but ultimately decided to press pause and put her feet up. Walking home this afternoon with the warm Simpson Desert sunshine on her shoulders, the content of her podcast was anything but. She spoke to The Advocate a short time ago via mobile telephone. "It's about this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though there's absolutely no way any of what he's saying actually happened, that didn't perturb a young drinker from plough on through his yarn as it dipped, ducked and dived between mundane reality and pure imagination. Speaking candidly to a small group of friends last Saturday night in the designated smoking area of the Betoota Dolphins Club, Peter Coolie...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact What he posted can't be repeated - but it prompted a visit from two detectives and a month-long ban from Facebook. Around 6pm last night, two junior Queensland police detectives from a Diamantina Area Command paid a visit to Darren Goldman's Betoota Heights Californian bungalow to speak to him about a very spicy meme he posted about the upcoming...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact To say the scene was confronting is an understatement - that's according to Capt. Damien Rustle from the Betoota Hills Fire Authority. From shocking car wrecks to fires that burned a million wild acres of nothing, Captain Rustle has seen all that a man of his ilk could ever see. "But that milk. Man, it really...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Mate, can you put those legs into thrid gear? We're going to be late otherwise," he said. "Honestly, there's as much life in you as The Queen Mother right now. Chop chop!" At least, that's what Michael Bradley wanted to say to his mate Steve while he abled at the back of the group. The gaggle of...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact New parents Leah and James Finbar state they are immediately trying for a second child after the birth announcement of their first child failed to get over 100 likes. Announcing the arrival of their daughter Juniper May Finbar (0) on their respective Facebook and Instagram accounts, the couple was shocked when 24 hours later not a...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Society | Contact Upper Betoota Gardens couple, Simon and Shell Brogue, have really shown their age today by laying out clothes and other miscellaneous items on their spare bed in anticipation of their upcoming holiday. While this may seem like a simple organisation technique that’s not specific to any particular age group, where Simon and Shell exposed themselves...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Society | Contact Kirstin Fischer has this morning woken up with double the hangover. Not only does it feel like someone has lodged a pick into her skull, but she has discovered that she has lost yet another pair of nude high heels to that weird black stuff on the dance floor. Kirstin, who spent her night club...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Sometime last year, Gilbert Boing was eliminated from Channel 10's Survivor and on that warm tropical night his torch was extinguished - he promised that 'this' was just the beginning. Countless long months later, the nation still hasn't heard anything from the 34-year-old chimney sweep, which is leading many to believe that it was indeed the last we'll ever see...