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 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the University Of Western Queensland has found that adults should not feel uncomfortable about enjoying, or even singing along to, British musician Robbie Williams. Professor Kerrod Walters from UWQ says that the music made by the bad boy of 1999-2005 pop is undeniable good stuff, and that enjoying it is only...

 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following a string of headlines this week, US rapper Ja Rule has been hired by Australian Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton as a key advisor to Australia's two offshore Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers and refugees. Ja Rule's disastrous, yet lucrative 'Fyre Music Festival - which resulted in hundreds of rich kids being stranded in the Bahamas...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Inner-city-Melbourne-based resident Michael Lyons, currently advising Government contractors in the CBD on the latest underground road-project, has become aware of the perils of the Ice-problem within the city. Whilst lunching daily around the Swanston street precinct, he has seen local street dwellers cussing at strangers, and throwing general abuse at shoppers - he says it's not something he...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The fact that local woman, Bella Cosimider, has been back at her desk at NRMA for a whole week is yet to stop her non-stop instagramming of photos from the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The 25-year-old claims assessor was just one 190,000 people from right across the world who traveled to Indio, California earlier this...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Go on. Just give it another push. Or two.

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Malcolm Turnbull’s latest attempt at emulating Tony Abbott this week has resulted in a new Citizenship test. The new test will reflect “Australian values,” despite the Government admitting that they are unsure what values will be assessed and how it will be done. However, the Advocate can reveal that applicants can pass the test by getting a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland Rugby League great, Scott '40/20' Minto has today confirmed his attendance to this year's Betoota Advocate pub take over in Sydney's Regent street. The 38-year-old utility wing, centre and prop for the Central Coast Comets has said that he looks forward to having a few yarns with both the ex-pat Queenslander community and the born and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 18-year-old Sydney art student, Hannah Clarke, doesn't expect her lecturers to understand the unique connection she holds with the late Christopher George Latore Wallace, a Brooklyn-based US rapper that died roughly twelve months before she was born. She says she's been into 'Biggie' ever since she heard the "Notorious B.I.G. & The XX - Dead Wrong Remix" on Youtube during...

CLAUDIA HOUSTOUN  |  Music | CONTACT Nearly two decades of academic research has resolved the subject question of Kasey Chambers’ hit 2001 single, Not Pretty Enough. According to, Shaun Nesser, a researcher from the University of Western Queensland, the 40-year-old Australian Country music singer-songwriter was, and still is, definitely pretty enough. “There's no question about it" he said. "She had all the markers of 2001 South...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A group of popular female students from Joan Of Arc Ladies College in North Betoota have spent the last five minutes locked in a deep embrace for no reason. This follows new findings in a recent report by the CSIRO which suggests that popular high school girls spend upwards of 85% of their school recess and lunch breaks...