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OBITUARY | Editor | CONTACT 1990's TV icon and beloved comic mastermind Rattus the Rat has been found dead after a suspected heroin overdose in his Surry Hills apartment this morning. An entire nation is in mourning. Rattus, best known for playing an exaggerated version of himself in The Ferals and the groundbreaking Feral TV, forever changed the face of Australia’s cultural landscape....

28 October, 2015. 13:27 IMRAN GASHKORI | Editor | CONTACT It seems the Western Sydney Wanderers have had enough. After an endless barrage of media hype over flares, the A-League cellar dwellers have decided to fire back, today announcing a bold bid to lure former WWF/WWE wrestling superstar Ric Flair to the club as a club mascot and potential owner. Flair was recently spotted...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT NRL players do not deserve the riches of the new broadcast deal, frustrated clubs executives believe. The Courier-Mail can reveal club officials plan to lobby the Todd Greenberg NRL CEO to come good on the promise made by the code in 2014 that would see $2 million dedicated to helping players remove the word "youse" from...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] After more than forty-five minutes spent watching both professional and amatuer adult films through an array of online streaming services, local man Dave Amos says he is now experiencing "something that feels a lot like guilt". "I mean it's not like I've hurt anyone... What I'm feeling is more of a disappointment. A disappointment in myself," Mr Amos, a 28-year-old...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Like anyone who was required to use science fiction as an escape during their troubled childhoods, The Betoota Advocate is hyper-space-hyped for the upcoming  sequel to everyone’s favourite franchise, Star Wars, There’s been a myriad of leaks and rumours swirling on the internet, but a recent post from a Disney employee on Reddit has confirmed the presence of 5 iconic...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact APPLE CEO Tim Cook has today tweeted that he had received clarification from software statisticians of a world record in monitored physical activity being broken in the Sunshine Coast shopping district of Noosa Junction, Queensland. According to the "Steps Counter" application, two Apple Watch users have travelled over 900 kilometres by foot in only two...

29 October, 2015. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A WAYWARD BRISBANE teen has been sentenced by the local courts to attend an upcoming Neil Diamond concert after she was found guilty of theft-related charges. 17-year-old Brittany Dorst was arrested after her parents pressed charges against her as they caught her stealing cash and using the family car without prior authorisation....

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Jake Garbs is from Sydney's Northern Beaches and couldn't give a shit about anything. A place made famous by the controversial rugby league franchise known as The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, as well as the Channel Seven TV drama Home & Away, which is unofficially set in one of the sleepy seaside localities. But unlike those successful exports, Jake Garbs has absolutely no...

28 October, 2015. 9:05 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE SPATE OF anti-immigration protests rocking the cities of European nations, especially Scandinavian ones, have lacked elements of the overt racism and hate that would garner them international press - something that was achieved in Cronulla on only their first attempt. In 2005, a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment spilled over on one...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN WHAT IS typically a moment in which one can catch up the the day's social media trends and posts, one local man has been forced to have a rather pensive time on the toilet, as his phone was only seconds away from going flat. Peter Hagen said he was forced to stare at himself...