The Nation

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A popular student at South Betoota Polytechnic College has revealed a particularly useful lifehack to The Advocate this afternoon That lifehack is the trick of getting a whole weeks' worth of groceries at Coles for just $30. William McQuade doesn’t use special coupons - or purchase stuff that's about to go off. He uses one simple, easy trick. That...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT There was frustration in the French Quarter this morning, as a couple’s peaceful brunch was ruined by the arrival of an amateur parade of cyclists. It’s been a tough week for the recently engaged Natasha Oat (28) and Sam Benedict (27), who had both spent the last fortnight juggling night shifts at the Betoota Base Hospital. Excited by...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Being convinced by a deadbeat lover to the breach public trust by tipping over 5 million tax-payer-dollars into ineligible rural community grants is an unfortunate scenario that any one of us could have found ourselves in. That's according the Point Piper-based hedge fund manager, Katherine McKatherines (57). "Why is it only Gladys that goes down" she says. "What about all the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local legal professional, Sandra McDermott (27) has today gone all out as a 'zombie insta model' in this year's attempt at a stand out Halloween costume. While her parents, as post-war suburban Australians, detest the concept of celebrating Halloween with every fibre of their bodies, Sandy thinks it's kind of cool to dress up as a scary supernatural...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that New Zealanders who live in Western Australia are by far the most New Zealander New Zealanders cutting around Australia. This comes after a survey of the 569,540 New Zealand-born people living in Australia. As it stands, Western Australia has the fourth largest population of Kiwis out of any...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Shawn Nguyen, like many others around the nation, is finally coming to terms with the truth today. Once again the warmer weather has rolled around, and once again the accountant from the Flightpath District has been left ruing his lack of a health regime. Nguyen confirmed to us this afternoon, that the only chance he has of getting his rig...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT (Photograph: http://paulwkerr.photography) One of the Riverina's most storied rugby league football clubs have today announced that they will be changing their club name, in accordance with the changing face of their town. The Wagga Wagga Kangaroos RLFC, a footballing institution responsible for giving us names like Peter Sterling, Tom Raudonikis and Jamie Soward - have today unveiled their new and improved...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The New South Wales ICAC hearing is today continuing their investigation into whether former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian breached public trust or deliberately ignored any alleged corruption by her ex boyfriend Daryl Maguire. A series of text messages and emails sent from Maguire to Berejiklian were also read, related to the questionable funding allocated for the Australian Clay Target...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT If the disgraced former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire thought the kitchen couldn't get any hotter, he was wrong. Today, once again, the most hated ex-boyfriend in New South Wales will step into the witness box at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian. A lengthy ICAC investigation, by the name of Operation Keppel, continues to dig into...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A remarkably unpopular local parking ranger is in the hospital this morning and a French Quarter builder is facing charges after a heated argument turned physical in a Rue de Branlette loading zone around 9 am. Police will allege that David Conn, of Allen Street in Betoota Heights, drilled a hole in the hand of Bradley Wallace Coleman during...