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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With Christmas festivities complete, households across from across the New England region of north-west New South Wales are emptying by the minute. Destination: Yamba, NSW "It's like our little home away from home" says Miles Liston, a New England Cotton Baron "We finish Christmas with a gutful of prawns and cricket and then head directly east". With Hiluxes peppering the sleepy streets...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact it has been four, extremely warm Summer days since the Christmas ham was pulled out of the oven, Dads around the country are still of the belief that it's still good to eat. One local man, Brett Noon (29) says he's pretty certain the cut up leg of pig has spent more time...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet Reporter | Contact Sarah Harris likes to let her hair down. She likes to enjoy a drink. She likes to have a good time. She likes it when work picks up the bill, to thank her for working 12-14 hour days all year for the firm. However, more than all of these things - Sarah likes to feel safe. So ahead...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Andy Thompson may have been a little bit naive to think that he was in this year’s Chrissy party for the long haul, after starting his evening on the rums. The employee at the Betoota Ponds Harvey Norman said he was really looking forward to the shindig, with his colleagues but admits he got a little carried away. Fellow workmate Colin...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Roll your wrists, Joey," he said. "Keep your head over the ball, don't be scared to watch it onto the bat." This afternoon, Joey Murchison and his father Mike spent a few hours running through tactics and the like ahead of the planned Christmas Day match against his brother Mark's family. One important aspect they covered was...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Elise Souchez felt the weight lift off her shoulders this afternoon as she finally drew a line through 2022. Today was the last work and social commitment for the year, and Souchez told us she was just about done. “If I wasn’t already worn out from 11 months of slogging it out for a company that I don’t particularly like,...

DYLAN FEINGOLD | Fighting | Contact There will be many sore heads tomorrow across town but not all of them will be from the grog. Returning back to his parents block on the edge of town, former-private-school-pupil-turned-university-student Martin Wilson-Carter told The Advocate that while he'd prefer not to fight anyone on Christmas Eve, he knows it's inevitable. Riley's Casino And Grill, better...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT For the 17th time in as many years, this year's Christmas gifts haven't even gotten close to the excitement that came with the holographic bright green front cover of the 2003 Guinness Book Of World Records. While mum nearly got close a few years ago with a gift voucher for the Australian Geographic store in the local Westfield,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the family home now nothing but a bare space of settling dust, it appears that the Christmas festivities are officially over for 2023. If it wasn't the fact that every single bed in the house is now stripped, or the fact that mum is currently googling fitness regimes, the most obvious way of telling that Christmas is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There were chaotic scenes this morning at the French Quarter local courts after the son of a prominent banker failed to have his conviction sealed by the court. Johnathon Hugh-Poon, the 19-year-old second born son of Betoota Grove hedgefund manager Alastair Poon, pleaded guilty to a string of charges earlier this month under the proviso that his convictions would...