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19 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact You'd be mistaken for thinking 'Moree Man' was the next comic book hero to be brought to the silver screen, but you wouldn't be too far wrong. Left on the cutting room floor of the BBC's groundbreaking nature documentary Planet Earth II, was a rare courtship display filmed by the British crew...

19 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A campaign by Coogee residents, in Sydney's eastern provinces, to erect Irish Gaeilge street signs has won over local council this week, heralding a new era of acceptance in the region. Donagh Moloney, originally of Letterkenny in the Irish Republic, emigrated to Australia in the early 1990s and has called Coogee home...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After the recent discovery of oil in the Diamantina Shire, the Betoota BP fuel and diner has today announced that the prices for unleaded are the cheapest they have ever been since Petero Civoniceva first started played for the Brisbane Broncos. The service station has paid homage to this by plastering a photo of Petero's head on...

17 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The licensee of the Betoota Sailing Club has noticed business has been on the rise in recent weeks, however, the clientele has shifted away from being a more family orientated venue to an almost university-sports-club type vibe. "It was a mystery to the staff until I had a barback ask if he...

14 April, 2017. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Darren Tomlinson spent the first 40 years of his humble life in the vast, but ultimately forgiving Queensland desert - where he learned to say please and thank you. However, like most young his age, curiosity got the better of him. Rather than falling for the many flash ringer's tale of Europe, complete...

The extremely loud blaring of Fleetwood Mac coming from the family living room has confirmed that mum and dad have been tipping a few reds. Voted arguably the greatest album of all time, according to not just dad, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac has seen already seen a couple rotations this afternoon on the family entertainment system - Mum is now trying...

13 April, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An insensitive South Betootanese primary teacher has come under fire this afternoon for asking a new arrival to the region if he was born in a tent. Speaking to The Advocate just moments ago, Hazim Al-Kannada, 8, said he was asked a fairly straightforward question and he simply gave a straightforward answer. The...

12 April, 2017. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A senior executive at an bespoke South Betoota private asset management firm has confirmed that he was left bloodied and beaten after being dragged onto a Tiger Airlines flight this afternoon. Walter Huntington-Donoghue, a group CEO at Jocelyn & Connor, planned on departing Remienko Regional Airport this afternoon aboard a Qantas flight to Brisbane...

12 April, 2017. 16:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local stand-up comedian has taken time out of his hectic morning routine to visit his Belvwah Road solicitor to write his last will and testament ahead of his show tonight at Betoota Workies. Former Instagram sensation turned actual comic Brett Powell revealed to The Advocate that he's debuting a controversial new...

12 April, 2017. 16:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact And just like that, Mikey Playmore was banished from the WhatsApp group. Nobody knew why and nobody dared ask. Most would agree he hadn't really done anything to warrant - but that doesn't matter. When Mark Dollarhyde has had enough of you, you're gone. "He was getting a bit big for his boots," said...