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KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACTCorey Hastings (29) has mastered the art of apartment living. A bloke who was born and bred in the cul-de-sac paradise of Betoota Heights, Corey admits moving to Sydney to follow his dreams of becoming a middle manager at an international finance firm hasn’t really paid off. After waking up in his tiny $700 a week shoebox apartment...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact A recently single local woman has started her week off on the wrong foot, after some late night Tinder scrolling saw her stumbling upon her ex’s profile. Despite also being on Tinder, Renee Houston is reportedly very annoyed about discovering Matthew's profile, stating that she couldn’t believe he ‘would move on so quickly’ and that it’s evident the past...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA woman who moved to Sydney a year ago has slowly discovered that her new friends have had a significantly different upbringing, after being asked to join a skiing trip, it’s reported. April Lawson tells The Advocate that her biggest culture shock since moving to the big smoke was that everyone seems to be able to ski like...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A mouth-breathing Victorian currently enjoying the fruits of our home state as been left in awe by the incredible skill of the resort's omelette man. Staying at the Whiteshoe Sands Resort near Cairns last week, Melbourne man Derrin Sandels was first surprised that the resort offered freshly cooked omelettes when he arrived at the buffet...

RORY SALAZAR | Property | ContactA fiery exchange has taken place today between Betoota Heights-based archenemies Andrew Smith (55) and Frank Rigatoni (42), not that such a thing is anything unusual. However, this latest heated exchange between the notoriously stubborn pair of suburban Dads was, according to several onlookers, part of an ongoing dispute that has raged between them ever since they became neighbours...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA Betoota Heights woman has finally cracked the code to finally getting her parents to understand the housing crisis, after copping criticism and snide comments about lazy millennials for years. Angela Haddock, 32, tells The Advocate that the solution was rather simple, and that she’d wished she’d thought of it a lot sooner. “In their heads, younger people just don’t...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTAn Aussie film producer has decided it’s time for a well-earned drink after tossing a coin to see if he’ll produce a film about outback racism or suburban heroin. The son of a wealthy and completely legitimate owner of a chain of bikie pubs, Drew Riverteive (42) got into the film producing industry so he could contribute to Australian...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTBetoota dad Troy Wood (58) has been well and truly rumbled today after finally being called out for giving advice he has simply plagiarised from 1990s films about sport. As someone whose idea of research doesn’t involve a news website with a crosshair in the logo, Wood still has a good relationship with his children who still come to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACTA young man has been caught engaging in some animalistic behaviour this afternoon, as onlookers state he could be seen curiously cocking his head from side to side in the middle of a shopping aisle, it’s reported. Brayden Williams , a young apprentice plumber from our town’s pebblecrete driveway district of Betoota Heights, was observed doing so down at...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn keeping with the #throwbackthursday trend, twenty seven year old occupational therapist Portia Vause has taken to her instagram to reminisce about a time and place she felt the happiest, it’s reported. Inspired by her peers photos of last years European trips, no doubt triggered by feeling jealous of all the people loading their 2023 holiday carousels, Portia has decided...