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LOUIS BURKE | Local News | Contact Proving every caravan has a PVC lining, Betoota’s newest bachelor Kenny Riggs (38) has taken his newly broken heart to an old school barbershop to do something he’s been meaning to regret. Popping into French Quarter barbershop, Hairy Fannigans, Riggs was immediately recognised as one of the hopefuls who previously rejected the call...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Normally, the illumination of a warning light on the dash is an unpleasant surprise for motorists as they try to quickly interpret what the icon means and how much it will cost to make the light go out again. But for mother of two Simone Ward, her day improved drastically as her morning commute...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact If the two and a half hour trip from Betoota Grove to Betoota Heights proves anything, it’s that the look-both-ways-before-you-cross message simply isn’t reaching the local wildlife. And the unfortunate result of this is that the only time the kids get to see a roo is upside down, with its legs pointing at...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Images of police brutality, riots and looting continue to emerge from the USA as protestors take to the streets to demand justice for the murder of George Floyd, inspired by those who took to the streets to demand justice for their uncut hair. With a similar history of treating black fellas like shit, many Australians...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the Prime Minister's key advisors has been asked to wait outside Parliament House's situation room this afternoon after suggesting thermonuclear weapons should be used to end the ongoing trade war with China. Scott Cam, who's thought to be the chief architect of the HomeBuilder Scheme, was thanked for his input during the meeting...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The New South Wales Police Minister has said something he probably shouldn't have again today, prompting his boss to contemplate life and why people even bother doing things. David Elliott spoke to the media this morning, calling protesters of Indigenous treatment 'certifiably insane' amid the current pandemic were are in. Many of Mr Elliott's colleagues have...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Local News | Contact In some more confusing news to come out of Betoota this morning a local woman was snubbed in real life earlier today by an Instagram follower who watches every single one of her stories without fail. Isabella Brighton (25) says she was walking along Elm Street in the French Quarter when she locked...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact With Australian schools closed due to coronavirus, even online schools are taking safety measures, with the popular School of Hard Knocks having followed suit and ordered it’s students to continue to stay home, or break into other people’s homes if they are nicer. School of Hard Knocks, established in late 2006 immediately after...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact This old bastard that works up at the Woolworths Metro in the Old City keeps telling punters that he used to fly a Boeing for Diamantina Air Freight before all this shit kicked off. COVID-19 did him out of the job, reckons David Deerman and his old employer all back blackballed him into taking a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT PE teachers around Australia are today asking why it wasn't brought to their attention earlier that they are allowed to body slam teenage boys for talking shit. This comes after NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller attempted to provide context to the behaviour of an officer filmed throwing an Koori teenager to the ground during an arrest in Sydney...