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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Being one of KBBL Betoota Imparja's breakfast television presenters is a rare privilege bestowed upon a chosen few - one of those being Brett Gallway. Each morning, the 49-year-old rises early and runs for an hour around Barcoo Park in the South Betoota, exclusive, leafy enclave of Danish Town while he listens to podcasts. Arriving home in time...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Greg Klimt is a self-described simple man. He enjoys supporting his beloved Dolphins and maintains a diet almost completely devoid of fruit and vegetables. "I don't like them, I like smokey BBQ sauce and potato gems for tea," he said. "Wash 'em down with a Betoota Bitter tin and a hearty bowl of Viennetta dessert cake. That's how...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After failing to get into her favourite sandstone university, Emma Hutchins thought she might as well give up on becoming anything worthwhile - her dreams of changing the world as a young lawyer were dashed before they even began. That was until an older, wiser family friend told her of the veritable Xanadu that is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Local life partners and civil unionists, Wayne Carmichael and Adam Wolfe, told The Advocate this Sunday afternoon that they and their two adopted children enjoyed a long, hard day at a South Betoota park destroying traditional family values. "We went to the park after lunch to kick a ball around and attack marriage," said Wolfe, a 34-year-old high school...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local 38-month-old completely lost his mind this morning in a popular French Quarter cafe in a touching tribute to his Dad, who's celebrating his third Father's Day today. Quincy Ryder, 36, received the tantrum just after 11 am in front of friends, family and perfect strangers after he had to explain to his son Dakota...

MIKE CATT | Sheep and Goats | Contact Even the very mention of her name can send one local sheep farmer on an hour long tirade about how US songbird Pink almost doomed the entire wool industry. Just over a decade ago, the 37-year-old American called for a boycott of Australian sheep products over concerns she had about animal cruelty stemming...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though the shire council has made numerous efforts to improve the lighting in Apex Park, one local man is still terrified of walking through there alone after dark. Gregor Madden, a defenceless literary agent, often takes the long way home around the park after the sun goes down. Especially, says the 28-year-old, if he's been binge...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A recent graduate from Diamantina Technical College has been called out today on his habit of referring to himself as a Doctor. Sam Wilson whose paper titled: “Bountiful mind: memory, cognition and knowledge acquisition in Plato’s Meno earned him a Doctorate in Philosophy, has been relishing any opportunity to give himself the honourable title. “Hi, I am Sam, Dr....

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet Reporter | Contact Despite the fact that everyone comes down with a cold at some point during winter, Jack Derwin is certain that he has it particularly bad. The local accountant who came down with a serious case of man flu has spent the last couple of days “bed ridden” and whining to anyone who will listen...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact People like Wavell Rhodes are the unsung heroes of Friday afternoons. They pour the beers and clean the glasses. Good your potato gems and party pies and wishes you a warm farewell as you leave the bar just before close. Wavell Rhodes is a barman, the last of a dying breed of South Betootanese youngsters who don't mind rolling up...