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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One working woman's fight against The Man entered a new dimension this morning after she came into work to find that her uniform now includes a stupid hat. This latest punch in the face comes just days after Daisy O'Leary's employer cut her weekend and overtime penalty rates just because they could. Daisy spoke to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Today as he climbed Uluru for what he expects to be his last time, a Betoota Heights man paused to share his opinion on the growing refugee crisis in Australia. Panting and puffing about a third of the way up one of the country's most sacred natural wonders, Brendan Sommers said if we let them...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A group of friends has come together on a new group chat this afternoon to plan an intervention for local man, Dexter Pearson, after the 29-year-old was sprung watching Nine's Young Sheldon unironically earlier this week. Inside the new WhatsApp thread, Dexter's housemates revealed they came home from work on Tuesday evening to find Pearson...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A local Betootan Nightclub has made a big announcement on its social media today. The Rush, in Betoota's Old City District, informed its 652 followers on Instagram and Facebook that there will be a celebrity in the building this weekend. Mocked up by the club's manager after a couple of hours of painstaking work on the computer, the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Queensland Maroon's secret weapon, Bradley Charles Stubbs AKA "The Coach Whisperer" is today packing up his cardboard box and moving back to Canberra. This follows last night's tightly contest Origin decider loss to Freddy Fittler's 'Barefoot Blues' - one of only two black marks on the legacy of Australia's most prominent, and only coach whisperer. In an era where...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A young Republic of Sydney local has opened up to The Advocate this morning about the traumatic experience he went through last night. The 28-year-old Sales and Marketing Consulting Representative, unfortunately, missed one of the greatest moments in NSW State of Origin History last night after the pub he was drinking in closed before the final siren. As a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The red-faced goon who moonlights as the Mayor of our town has expressed shock at the news today that a large parcel of land on the town's southern outskirts earmarked for development is owned by his wife. Councillor Keith Carton, who's been Mayor of our cosmopolitan desert community for nearly two decades, went on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our town's largest media companies has thrown caution to the wind this afternoon as they paid a freelancer's invoice on time. When designer Max Steerman sat down with The Advocate this afternoon in the French Quarter cafe he calls an office, he said he didn't even have to send a follow up email...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A happy-go-lucky dirt farmer's son on the Betoota City Limits spent the morning hooning around the top paddocks, leaving what he assumes were invisible tracks in his wake. Blake Welshbrook, 16, woke up this morning and decided he didn't want to go to school. With many jobs to do around the farm, his mother just...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A locally-popular breeding pair of Baby Boomers have broken their silence this morning after selling one of their investment properties at a loss over the weekend. John and Diana Williams-Creswell have worked hard to amass a large portfolio of properties around town. They've saved, begged and borrowed. The sexagenarians told The Advocate that they...