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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Peter and Nancy Pearson have waited years for the day, and yesterday it finally came. Their eldest son Graeme got his provisional license - meaning it was time for the sexagenarians to get a little bit of payback for all the years they drove him around. Mere minutes after they got the news, the Baby Boomers changed into their Sunday...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Two months ago, Nathan Dollarhyde's life was perfect according to the man himself. Today, it's far from it. The Advocate can reveal this afternoon that his partner of six years, Amanda O'Donghue, felt there was a lot more life could offer her beyond the Betoota City Limits - so she left. "And that was that," concedes the 28-year-old office person. "About a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The former Premier of New South Wales looked up in the sky last night and asked God why he does the things he does. Caught short at his local, the Lake Street Liquor Supply in Sydney's north, Mike Baird cursed himself for being the architect behind the Puritan laws that saw bottle shops close statewide...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Aaron Webster has confirmed today that he is actually aware that he is currently attending a regional Australian university. The 3rd year commerce student at South Betoota Polytechnic College was approached by our reporters after other students alleged that the young man may have been of the belief that he was at a tertiary education...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact When Matthew Greenholm was 12 years old, he told his parents he wanted to be a pilot. But as Powderfinger so eloquently sang on arguably their greatest single: "These days turned out nothing like I'd planned." The Gemini is now a 29-year-old leasing agent at LJ Hooker South Betoota, who despite his outward assurances, doesn't seem...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There will be a time and place when the smoke alarm system at the Dupont Apartment complex in Betoota Heights will save lives. It worked flawlessly last night as it woke 67-year-old Gavin Pooley from his slumber around 3 AM. But even if it didn't, it wouldn't have cost him his life. For the third time this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Productivity at a French Quarter sports marketing firm has ground to a halt this afternoon as The Undertaker made his return to the highest altar of explosive sports entertainment. So much so, the company partners declared an emergency meeting after lunch to discuss what to do as their entire staff sat transfixed before the lunchroom...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In a world where image is everything, a quick-thinking entomology professor at South Betoota Polytechnic College has saved the day after he partially wet himself shortly before lunch today by untucking one side of his shirt. Having classes on Sunday isn't a new concept for Associate Professor Gilbert Sutherland - but failing to shake moments...

KEPPEL RANKIN | Local News | Contact “Seriously but, there is no way I’d step into the ring with Morny, he’d take my head off,” laughed one friend. A conversation at the North Betoota Hotel on Friday night has reconfirmed a group of friend’s reluctance to fight one of their mates - if it ever came to it. It was quickly...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "What is 'Dazos Brothers Sth Betoota Pty Ltd' and what did I buy there for $10.40?" Smelling her the cuffs of her Zimmerman jacket, Ollie Hawker concluded that it was probably something with garlic. This morning, the skittish Gemini woke to a dull headache, mild thirst and an awkward lethargy that will dictate the rest of her...