It may be a satirical publication, but the impact of The Betoota Advocate is being felt in the tiny outback town that bears its name.
abc.net.au/news/what-locals-think-of-the-betoota-advocate/102513790With headlines like Supermarkets Urged To Rename New Avocado Variety So It Doesn't Sound Like A Vibrator in reference to GMax Avocados, the team at The Betoota Advocate is fluent in sarcasm.
"It's just the pub, which was built in about 1884 and the new owner has been there five or six years. "There was a bit of a school there. It wouldn't have been a proper state government-built school but in those days they'd put a school in anywhere – in the hall or any existing building that wasn't getting utilised each day."Cr Dare said Betoota was in need of funding for sealed roads to make the area safer.
"Betoota is our place that needs a lot of help. They keep saying the main towns have got bitumen. But Betoota hasn't." Traditional Owners are on board too. The general manager of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Joshua Gorringe, also refers to the Advocate in glowing terms."Lots of people are interested in the place and where it is [because of the Betoota Advocate].""There are a number of Mithaka people wanting to move to the area," he said.
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