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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Just when a Scottish Backpacker was beginning to think he may have to jump on a Viber call to his parents back home, the world handed him a lifeline. Gregor Boyle was doing it tough down in the harbour city of Sydney, with rejection after rejection starting to take its toll. Unable to get a labouring gig for his...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local mother irrationally went through a raft of scenarios in her head moments ago. The young mum of 2 has stayed true to her pledge not to drink during the month of October so far, notching up day number 19 today. However, despite not having had an alcoholic beverage in nearly three weeks, Mahlia Vincent (29) was still shitting bricks...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Byron Bay's newest power couple, Victorian actor Liam Hemsworth and his American fiancee Miley Cyrus have reportedly gone 'full Byron'. This comes after spending the last few years on an off in the North New South Wales with the other Hemsworth siblings. The A-list couple called off their first engagement in 2013, but rekindled their romance in January 2016 while...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Thanks to an explosive leak from inside the Coalition Party Room, the government's updated plan for the asylum seekers detained on Nauru can be unveiled today. The Betoota Advocate can exclusively reveal that the Morrison lead Government plans to blame the whole issue on an 'administrative error.' This comes after Government senators voted with Pauline Hanson on her 'It's OK to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Many around the country have been following the two young popstar Royals around the harbour city of Sydney today, with all of major mainstream news organisation’s covering every little move Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make, as well as the minutia of the outfit that the Duchess of Sussex is wearing of course. Landing in the country yesterday,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local man has today worked up the courage to order his first ever cocktail at a trendy bar in Betoota’s meat packing district. According to Jack Scales (29) the menu may as well have been in Japanese, with none of the cocktail names meaning anything to him at all. After staring at the menu and pretending he knew...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia has cast himself back into the headlines again today after calling for a drastic action to contain a potential threat to pub feeds around the nation. Barnaby Joyce told The Betoota Advocate just moments ago that he will be calling for an urgent recall on all Club Sandwiches across Australia, after finding...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Prime Minister Uncle Tony X has decided to risk a possible parole violation by chartering a government aeroplane to Dubbo so that he can catch the final rounds of the 2018 Koori Knock Out. This follows a whirlwind month for Uncle Tony, ever since he was gifted the role of Special Envoy to Indigenous Affairs by Scott Morrison...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Ahead of making his way to Dubbo for the 2018 Koori Knock Out, Former Prime Minister Uncle Tony X has today been given the 'white nod' from his Liberal party colleague, Peter Dutton. The 'white nod' is defined by Oxford Dictionary as the moment in a black person's life when they become familiar enough with a white person to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Struggling first-home-buyers may have found an easy foot into the hyper-inflated Australian property, it has been confirmed. Mirroring the the damage done to Australian fruit growers over the last fortnight, local millennial, Courtney Fisher (25) has starting randomly poking needles into the plasterboard walls of investment properties in her childhood suburb. "It's the only way" she says. "The negative gearing tax...