The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact England has come second in this year's Rugby World Cup, losing to South Africa tonight in the final at Yokohama Stadium. The All-Whites leave the competition empty-handed once again, the only solace being the defeat was probably the fault of their Australian coach, Eddie Jones. It comes as another blow to England, as they and the...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT Australian humans and horses alike have reacted with relief to the news today that reports last month of retired racehorses being unceremoniously slaughtered in abattoirs were entirely fabricated. Listen here to our interview with swimming champion Mack Horton: According to an unnamed whistleblower, the reports were totally fabricated by Sportsbet and Racing NSW to speed up the entrants in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man arrived at the airport this morning cutting it a little fine for his liking in terms of time. Darcy Rollins told The Advocate this afternoon via telephone that he'd checked-in on his phone and wasn't carrying any checked luggage. "The only thing that stood between me and the Virgin Lounge was security,"...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The nation's property owners don't take many unnecessary risks, whether they be financial or physical - now they're being forced into taking one. Qantas has admitted that a number of their 737 workhorses have hairline cracks in a critical structure that keeps the wings attached to the fuselage. While the wings actually coming off during...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact From the outside, Denise Goldman's house looks like any other around Betootas Heights. A ghastly display home built on sand. Half-dead grass out the front. A stock Toyota Kluger in the driveway. It's financed for five years with a 60% balloon. The Colourbond fences and roof are the same colour. There's nothing remarkable about...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Putting a racquet behind a tennis ball or moving some Kashmir willow to a point where it's going to intersect with a fast-moving ball - doesn't come easy for most. Many people in the Betoota community look like they couldn't run out of sight on a dark night, let alone catch a hard, flat cut...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Sitting on the edge of the world, Betoota Heights woman Bridgette Coleman thought she couldn't be further away from home if she tried. But, it seems, she needed to try just a little bit harder. The 28-year-old was watching the sun go down over the Southern Atlantic Ocean from Santo Mario, a coastal fishing village in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betootacone Valley tech startup has been forcing their most valuable employees to come to work in thin, unflattering t-shirts that show off their man curves. That's drawn criticism from some of Delecto's employees, who say they should be allowed to wear what they want to work. The CEO of Delecto, a productivity and corporate...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact In some breaking news this morning, the reality TV giant MasterChef has announced it's ditching its long-running principal sponsor - Coles. The Betoota Advocate can exclusively reveal that MasterChef has ditched its major sponsor after reports emerged that Woolworths has underpaid it's workers a few hundred million dollars. Woolworths announced this morning it has underpaid nearly 6000 employees over the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Cricket's greatest all-rounder since Jacques Kallis has been banned for 12-months with a further 12-months suspended today after the International Cricket Council discovered the player hadn't reported approaches from bookmakers. Bangladesh Captain Shakib Al Hasan will not play in the upcoming and pointless T20 World Cup and will instead take some time out. The reaction...