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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Ben Brown is coming in hot. The broker at a firm in Betoota’s Business District clicked attending to a mates house party a few weeks ago. He also warned his mate, who he met on exchange in Budapest that he would be a little late as he had to attend a Friday staff drinks, as is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Even the guy who shit his pants in P.E. back in Year 7 got a nickname," he said. "Mind you, it wasn't one you'd want but he ended up owning it. Meanwhile, I've tried my best to be pleasant, kind and nice to everyone in the cohort. I get good marks, not the best but...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT While lamenting on her time spent up in the territory as a teenager, Betoota South High School drama teacher, Ms Webcke (62) stares off into the distance. Ms Webcke is very rarely broken from her slow ballet of theatrical instruction. Never high, nor low. Always very chilled. As one of the only non-unionised members of the faculty, Webcke...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local small town mechanic's apprentice, Ando (19) has today treated himself, after lodging an online tax return that estimates he'll be getting roughly a grand in a half back. Despite the fact this money won't arrive for another month or so, and despite the fact that he's purposely not thinking about the fact that next week's payment...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Tim Hume never thought ‘financial freedom’ could be so constrictive and so glum. The 25-year-old Finance Analyst in the CBD has been an avid subscriber to the advice offered by Scott Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor’ for some time now. He claims that The Investor has improved his bank balance, and his outlook on life. Driving him...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Married couple Jane and Daniel Kenny have been informed by real estate agent John ‘Sharkey’ Scarponi that there is no good reason why a linen cupboard can’t double as a third bedroom for their five-year-old son. Having recently benefited from the services of an online mortgage broker, uno Home Loans, to repay their mortgage over...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "He's a bit keen, isn't he?" wrote Sam Perkins to the Dugong's fifth-grade WhatsApp group. Everyone's in it except for the captain, Tex Taylor, who doesn't even know it exists. There's an official one that he's group admin of but it's seldom used for anything other than official team business. The latter of which sprang to life...

KENT REGINALD | Editor | CONTACT A local Betoota woman is absolutely fuming this evening, after coming home to find her Netflix suggestions completely ruined by ex-partner's lame ass love of loud comedy. Bailey Snodgrass, a 32 year old advertising executive, reportedly has one release from her daily grind of sitting at a desk and browsing Facebook all day - coming home to watch...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man was arrested last night around 7 pm after police discovered that his car had broken down on the A34 onramp at the intersection of Collins Road in the Old City District - causing town-wide traffic chaos. Traffic was backed back to the start of the A21 in Betoota Ponds, some seven kilometres from where the incident...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Turning 18 just before his final year in high school starts to get important, Dennis Goink's inexperience when it comes to being in a licenced venue was laid bare this Monday afternoon after he panicked when asked what he - and the rest of his merry gaggle of freshly legal friends wanted to drink. Looking the taps up and down, he...