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EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThe nation’s woo girls have been seen raiding costume shops and adult stores en masse this week, as they scramble to get some sexy outfits for Halloween. Costume store owners allege that police officer uniforms and nun dresses were quickly snapped up, but that luckily they’d prepared ahead of time to do a mass ordering of the most popular...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A Betoota Heights woman is today considering a huge challenge, after a big weekend of DIY. Lisa Tran says she's considering putting her life on hold for 6 months, and applying for a chance to go on The Block. "I honestly reckon the hubby and I would be good on there," laughed Lisa this afternoon. Popular year after...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact The game of netball has this week received support from an army of fans it never knew it had. This comes following the Gina Rineheart sponsorship saga, with the Hancock Prospecting boss pulling 15 million dollars worth of cash for Netball Australia. The withdrawal of the funds followed the players refusing to wear the Hancock Prospecting logo, after...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactDespite never having had any interest in doing anything that remotely involves the ocean, local woman Kayla Stewart has always secretly harboured a desire to be a hot surfer chick - namely, the hot Billabong surfer chicks she saw in her old teen magazines, or plastered on the walls of City Beach. As a frequent viewer of shows such...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A former party boy has been forced to have an honest chat this morning, after a routine school drop off inspired some curly questions. Driving to school in his Hyundai Santa Fe, it’s reported former pinger rat, Dillon Cox, was forced to answer some questions coming from the back seat of the vehicle, after his two kids...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTAustralia loves a battla. The sort of person who has had to earn everything they have in life through good old fashioned hard yakka, with nothing handed to them but the occasional backhand from their old man and they turned out fine alright.Apprentice shopfitter Glen Unco (18) is leading the charge of the next generation of battlers who just...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTAfter a solid decade of mainstream success and box office billions it has been confirmed that media featuring superheroes is once again a ‘nerds only’ affair. Prior to Iron Man and The Dark Knight doing the unthinkable and being a good movie based on comic characters, superhero movies were the sort of shit you watched when it was raining...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACTA man who owns a Kia Picanto is been labelled an optimist today, for thinking he’ll be able to move house without hiring a proper vehicle.The Advocate understands this weekend local Betoota IT Support Manager Jerrod Quinn is attempting to move house with a car that’s smaller than a cubby house.Taking apart his dining room furniture...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTAn area once only inhabitable to dodgy cops and leathery mixed business owners has had a glow up in recent years delighting property owners and enjoyers of decent coffee. Flight Path District adjacent suburb Darling Hills, formerly Macquarie’s Throne, was once the sort of place where someone could get drunk and glassed for under ten dollars but these days...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTAn absolute win for the people took place in the Betoota CBD today as two old university friends bumped into each other and didn’t feel the need to make insincere plans for a coffee catch up. Having been good friends for the three years they attended uni together, Alexa Melton and Vincent Lam bumped into each other while on...