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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A much loved footy club in Western Queensland, that has provided opportunity and personal development for thousands of at-risk rural kids over the better part of a century, looks like it'll have to shut up shop this week. Not because they can't make the numbers anymore, and not because they can't find local parents and community members to help...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A street smart local man has found his way out of a potentially sticky situation today. As the day turns to night on a big day for Berrick Billson, the young man has had a big few hours. And that fact, has raised the ire of his long term girlfriend who has to be at work early tomorrow morning and doesn’t have a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's most powerful policymakers are today butting heads over who gets to reel in the next big catch to be booted from the ranks of the coalition government. Nationals Senator McKenzie looks set to resign from politics after it was revealed she used a $100 million grants program to hand cash to sporting groups that were affiliated with Coalition...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Overgrown bushland that has been left unkept because the national parks budget has been slashed and the number of rangers has been halved is the number one biggest threat to Australian wildlife and rural communities, it has been confirmed. That's according to Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing, as he continues his half-hearted rhetoric that the rural communities that have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Coalition's 'sports rort' continues right across the party today, after it was revealed that a sporting club with close ties to the Nationals Member for Dawson received a $300,000 grant to help upgrade their facilities. While many locals recognise that that The Manila Central Ping Pong Club (MCPPC) has been in dire need of some actual ping pong...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Gospers Mountain 'mega fire' started from a single ignition point in late November, but has now destroyed an area seven times the size of Singapore and is still burning to this day. With reports that close to one billion animals have perished throughout the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, residents from the western side of the Blue Mountains are...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Properties and vehicles right across the nation's capital are being surveyed today by the villainous corporate suits who work in the insurance game, following yesterday's furious ten-minute-long hailstorm. This climatic anomaly comes after thousands of respiratory problems were reported following a very long month of disgustingly thick bushfire smoke blanketing the city. Listen to The Betoota Advocate interview with the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian media pundits are in a state of shock today, after comments made by a highly religious woman who was born in rural NSW nearly 80 years ago. Margaret Court has doubled down on her controversial opinions of highly nuanced gender and sexuality theory, after returning to Melbourne Park as a special guest of Tennis Australia. Court made headlines for...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Lonely bartender/glassie Lauren Childs was once again subjected to the distant sounds of laughter coming from the smoking area. The socially awkward hospo worker had tried her hardest to fit in with the Shifty Hen crew but unfortunately for her, most of the bonding activities seemed to occur during the routine smoke breaks. Lauren reckons...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Western Queensland and New South Wales continues to receive some of its best rainfalls in months, the downpour is yet to break drought but has helped further squash persistent bushfires. In NSW, the Northern Tablelands, Northern Slopes, Northern Rivers, Mid North Coast and Hunter have relished in some decent rain - while Queensland's Maranoa and Condamine rivers are...