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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man has celebrated the return of MasterChef to primetime television this week by jamming a peg into the door lock mechanism of his microwave oven, setting it to auto defrost, then placing his head inside it. Damien Rutland, who spoke to The Advocate this morning through singed lips, scorched gums and burned...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT While the rest of the nation angles to take four days off between long weekends, there’s an entire state of people who are today relishing in their God-given right to enjoy a public holiday today as well. In news that might not actually surprise anyone who has visited Tasmanian, tradition dictates that the inhabitants of the Apple Isle get...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local print journalist, Patrick Charleton (55) has today stepped out of the uber, taken one last sip of his oat flat white, and removed the lid - before disposing of it in the respective bins - separating the cardboard and plastic of his $4.50 morning coffee, to make they aren’t carted off to land fill in the same...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Easter, across most cultures, is the most underrated time of the year - it has been confirmed. Easter, also called Pascha by the Greeks, or Resurrection Sunday by nerd - is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The random bowl of budget chocolate eggs wrapped in multicoloured foil at your parent's house is still being grazed upon, despite a distinct lack of flavour, it has been confirmed. The annual return of this particular confectionary, which no one really likes but are continually taking handfuls of due to the celebratory spirit of the long weekend, is lost...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT After just one week, the 2022 election is already proving to be too much for some Australians including Betoota climate scientist Dr Claire Shaw. As part of the Betoota Climate Science Council, Dr Shaw has spent the last decade studying the environmental impacts of man made climate change, during which time she has been listened to by politicians...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In some genuinely shocking news from the CBDs of our major cities, it can be revealed that those who control the media landscape in this country are not interested in covering calls for a Billionaire's Tax. For some weird reason, the families who own, founded, or run the major media corporations have zero time for publishing anything to...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTFather of three Glen Keiver (55) has regaled his children with some ‘cautionary’ tales from his youth which has resulted in him confessing to several rather serious crimes in the process.After a precious gem of a family dinner, Keiver kept the good times going by giving his children an unprompted anthology of his misspent youth growing up in...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The National Party have this week revealed how they plan to fix on of the major bungles from their government's time in office. Speaking at a press conference in Darwin with a fancy new hat, Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has promised 1.5 billion dollars in funding to build a completely new Port of Darwin. This comes after the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the 2022 Federal Election campaign underway and Scotty From Marketing back on the road doing what he does best, the Australian voters must decide whether they want the underwhelming Government they know… Or a potential Albanese government they haven't spent much time thinking about. While the Australian media focuses on destroying the concept of an Opposition by taking...