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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has fired another rocket into the Pacific Ocean in a dramatic escalation in tensions between the nation's largest body of water and the Hermit Kingdom. Though the rocket harmlessly splashed down somewhere off the coast of Japan, a Betoota Heights couple is asking Asia's last dictator (according to the ABC)...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactNetflix producers are at it again this week, continuing their very bizarre trend of sourcing actors that heavily appeal to young women to play murderers who are by no means, attractive in any way. First hiring former Disney star Zac Efron to play the unibrow touting serial killer Ted Bundy, Netflix discovered that they’d just stumbled upon an award-winning...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A marginally-employed young man from our town's Heights district has told The Advocate that he's likely to be crucified tonight after spending most of the long weekend doing something relaxing. After being dragged from one place to another on Friday and Saturday, Glenn Douglas told his defacto life partner that he just wanted to have...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACTA Betoota Heights bottle shop employee has raised the hairy caterpillars that sit above his eyes today, after fielding a left field question from some interesting looking customers. Harry Hicks (31) said the confusion came a short time ago, after a couple of disheveled looking university students came into the store and hit him with a weird request. “Yeah they...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactAfter years of being illegally hounded by the government to pay back thousands of dollars of debt he never owed in the first place, Jack Dempsey (30) has tasted the sweet juice of justice.Dempsey, who dealt with an endless stream of terror at the hands of the notorious Robodebt recovery system, received $11 compensation as part of the...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactA budget-savvy Kmart shopper who knows a bargain when she sees one has managed to pick up an entire steam iron for the incredibly low price of $7.50, again.The Advocate can report that Vicki Shirlaw (28) has for the fourth time this month ventured in to her local Kmart and bought an ANKO 2000w steam iron to replace...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACTA Betoota Heights man by the name of Brenton Thomas has this weekend been afflicted by a mystery illness. The local man who always manages to make a tiny head cold look like the spicy cough, has had to put his feet up this weekend after coming down with ‘something.’ The unfortunate incident also comes at an unfortunate time, with...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In one of the many display homes being built in Betoota Heights, inside one of them today an apprentice was asked to pop outside by the boss where they'd have a little bit of a chat. The foreman had just come and gone to the site on Hinze Link Road and made a passing comment...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man has confused a hotplate for a grill this week after returning from the shops with an electric barbecue. Codie Hoover is just hours away from being rinsed by his mates, not that he knows that, after inviting a dozen or so of them over on Sunday for a Grand Final barbecue. In...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After living rent-free with his parents for two years, Bowen Niles and his fiance-of-five-years Heidi Nichols have been able to enter the local property market. They've secured a three-bedroom townhouse on Jasper Street in the French Quarter and years of renting in grotty apartments in the same neighbourhood. "I'm just so glad I can put...