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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A remarkably unpopular South Betoota shift worker felt compelled to write to The Advocate this morning with his own personal tale of woe. Dennis Peterson, who works nights unloading cargo at Diamantina Air Freight on the north end of the airport, said he thought he was hearing things when he heard his message tone trill out from the next...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Townsville man has confessed to inhaling twelve Krispy-Kreme doughnuts which he purchased at Brisbane Airport shortly before he flew out this afternoon. Francis Dollarhyde, a defence contractor and junior rugby league coach, purchased the sweet treats for his family as a treat. However, somewhere over Mackay, the temptation proved to be too much. "I had two...

INGRID DOULTON | Television | Contact The South Betoota Sizzler has been home to great fun family times for generations - all at an affordable price. From children's birthdays to a brooding teen's graduation, there's seldom an occasion where a trip to the institutional franchise isn't appropriate. But not everybody in the community can visit the salad bar or load themselves up...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Work  | CONTACT Louise Franklin was feeling pretty good about herself as she took a big sip of water from the water bottle that’s permanently left on her desk at work. But as one bird-like coworker pointed out, Louise’s water bottle would be giving her a lot more than some good quality H2O - given it’s entering its 100th day...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact She took the flat, the dog and the late model Toyota they went halves in but today, Mike Procter says he's finally had a win. Back living with mates of mates in a French Quarter share house, the 28-year-old auditor at KPMG's South Betoota Office told The Advocate that he's enjoying the newfound 'micro-freedoms' which have now returned to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the three Responsible Service of Alcohol Marshalls surveying the odd thousand revellers spilling out into the Dolphins Leagues Club car park this afternoon is currently looking for his next day to ruin. Brett Goodiman, of Betoota Ponds, said he's already thrown ten blokes out for showing signs of intoxication and "that's only the start" according to the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A recent survey into mateship has found that every single mate you will ever make at some point will come up to you at an ANZAC Day celebration and say they've been up on the Two-Up - but are now down. Case in point lies with three happy-go-lucky young men from the north-west suburbia of...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact "All of his profile pictures are hunting pictures," she said. "One of them was a feral cat that looked like it'd been run over by a lawnmower. What the fuck is wrong with people? And why do they think that'd be a good idea to put those pictures up on social media?" "Seriously, though. This town,...

Alex Kambouris is one of those guys you kind of knew at high school and kind of got on well but that's pretty much where it ended. Even though you haven't seen him since 2007 and have only heard his name brought up in conversations several times since then, he's still contactable through social media if you need to get...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A visiting American tourist sack back in his chair last night at the Betoota Dolphin's Leagues Club and wryly asked his new local friends if they rode kangaroos to school. Max Sterling, originally from Portland in Oregon, is visiting friends in Betoota Heights that he met last year during the famous Calgary Stampede in British Columbia. Now finding himself in...