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WENDELL HUSSEY | Intern Reporter | Contact A Betootan engineering student on his first overseas trip (excluding Bali) is acting like he has just shown the European country of Greece how to party. The local legend at the Betoota University of Technology (BUT) is finishing up a 21 day Contiki tour of Europe and told The Advocate that it has been...

SASHA WAGON | Local Courts | Contact The Federal Government today has officially warned Australians travelling to Colombia not to buy cheap headphones after accused drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury having her plea bargain thrown out by a Bogata judge overnight. "It is in your best interest to buy headphones before you go on holidays," said one Department of Foreign Affairs and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired by President Donald Trump just 11 days into his tenure in this year's season of The White House Apprentice. Trump called Scaramucci into the Oval Office earlier this morning local time and loudly declared he was fired in front of shocked onlookers. "You're fired!" shouted Trump. A short pause followed...

SANDRA McDONALD | Travel | CONTACT The Betoota Advocate have today uncovered damning revelations about deluded 'microinfluencers' who are attempting to communicate with European tourist hotspots as if they were actual people. The Betoota local at the centre of the investigation is currently making the most of her University break by traveling through Europe and pumping out at least one Instagram every two days for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner says he "did not collude" with the Russian government, despite having roughly four encounters with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition. Mr Kushner, has said that his contact with Russian officials was only really at 'gathos' he had hosted with a 'few different peeps'...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A poll conducted by Columbia University has concluded that the overwhelming majority of the 'real Americans' who guided President Donald Trump to victory last year are now beginning to regret their decision, with most of them explaining that if they had the chance, they'd rather have Kid Rock as their voice in Washington. It's a shock result for Trump,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following the news that OJ Simpson has been granted parole from prison after serving nine years for a botched armed robbery, Keeping Up With The Kardashians are expecting a record-breaking ratings spike for season 14. A four-member Nevada parole board voted to release the 70-year-old former star athlete after an often emotional hearing, however his conditions of his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After sunning themselves over Easter in Bali, the future leaders of the nation have once again left Australia in search of relaxation and cheaper drugs. Close to ten thousand of the nation's brightest privately-educated superstars have descended on the Adriatic Sea this week for Croatia Yacht Week - a seven-day-long festival of unbridled hedonism. Touching down...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Christopher Nolan's recent return to the director chair has blown away historians with his epic recount of the most remarkable stories of WWII - the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from the beaches of northern France - Dunkirk. However, while the mastermind behind Dunkirk already has earned his stripes with the Dark Knight Triology, Inception and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Not even an entire year after the Fast & Furious franchise released the 8th installment, production has already begun on number nine: The Mate Of The Furious The upcoming sequel, which is due for a 2018 release, is already being touted as one of the most expensive action films of all time. With only two more films to go and an ever-expanding fictional universe of...