This week, Clancy and Wendell are joined by not only Australian, but Queensland icon Robert Forster. Robert talks through his career in music, shines a light on the new crop of musicians coming through as well as his latest and heartfelt new project. Have a listen! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What’s is World Pride? Do you keep hearing about this imminent even but aren’t tapped in enough with the gays to fully understand what it means? Do you realize Sydney is about to host the biggest party since the Olympics? Are you aware that Oxford Street is going to look like the Mardi Gras on steroids for an entire month. Today’s guest Martin Stark explains it all, and gives us the run down on his contribution to the festivities. The inaugural Gay Boxing World Championship! See omnystudio.com/l...
Clancy Overell, Wendell Hussey and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nowra’s favorite son joins The Betoota Advocate podcast this week. Triple J host, rapper, writer, cultural institution! Nooky discusses his career thus far, from meeting the Black Eyed Peas in Redfern as a kid, to taking over Sydney (Black) Power House this week for a January 26 arts and music showcase. It’s a hell of a yarn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wendell Hussey and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A titan of Australian reporting, Nance Haxton joins Clancy and Errol on The Betoota Advocate Podcast this week. Talking about her wild career chasing stories all around the country. From her Walkley award winning coverage of Woomera Detention Centre, to her historical reporting about the Queensland blackbirding trade. Haxton is now focusing her attention on ‘Water’ - rivers, lakes and creeks. What do they mean to who? Who owns them? And who is exploiting them. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Leigh from the wildly popular We Got The Chocolates podcast stops in to join the show. He talks to us about being a celebrity in Brisbane Grade Cricket, finding endless supplies of dad jokes and the summer of cricket ahead. Have a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cults were big in the 80s… Some people thought they may have thinned out after the invention of the internet. This is not the case. This week, the editors interview the award winning journalist and author Tim Elliott about his new true crime podcast: Inside The Tribe. This series investigates a very peculiar cult that that exists just south of Sydney, the Twelve Tribes. Tim and his co-writer Camille Bianchi follow two members, Mark and Rose through their 15-year ordeal with the highly religious ...
Wendell Hussey and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week the editors are joined by Triple J presenters Hobba & Hing who’ve just launched their television special on iview called ‘Australia’s Best Competition Competition’. What do you know about Turkish oil wrestling in Caboolture? There’s a lot to know apparently. Tune in. Find the show here: https://ab.co/BestCompetition See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Richie Merzian, Director, Climate & Energy Program at the Australia Institute, and former Australian Government representative to the UN climate change conference. He joins the podcast from COP27 in Egypt to run us through what’s happening, what’s not, the weirdo nuclear advocates, the White Lotus resort that the conference is held at, and if the rest of the world is still laughing at us. Have a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Pride Of Queanbeyan returns to The Betoota Advocate Podcast this week to discuss the rise of Australian Hip Hop over the last three years. It's been roughly that long since we last spoke to him and Hauie has pivoted from artist to pioneer. From OneFour to Sampa The Great, to The Kid Laroi, he was there in the studio before anyone knew their names. Hau has this week published his memoir, titled KING, which is the Tongan translation of his own name - and also a metaphor for his selfless contri...
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The new Labor government have just handed down their first budget of this Parliamentary term (boringgg). One thing that is for sure is how much less noise there has been under Albanese - but it’s easy to forget the chaotic election that got him here. We speak to Queensland author and political pundit Lech Blaine about the weirdest election campaign, and result in history. Teal? Wtf is that See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Errol and Wendell sit down with Clutz and D’Arc, the brains behind the Bloody Brilliant Beers podcast. The boys talk us through their coming up story from recording above a pub all the way to cultivating a massive audience of beer lovers. Have a listen! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The slow pace of the pandemic saw a lot of people reassessing their situation. Sea change / tree change / career change? Something needed to change. Today’s guest, Australian author Oliver Mol already went through these paces several years ago when he suffered a splitting ten month migraine. As an emerging Australian writer, it was all over. The chronic pain meant he couldn’t look at a blank page. That’s when he got a real job working on the trains in Sydney. His new book Train Lord tells a dark...
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former bank robber turned Supermax prisoner turned survivor advocate, Russell Manser joins Errol and Clancy this week to discuss a life of crime, and a life after crime. From his early days boosting Porches - to the riches of his major crimes that followed. Russell is now a poster child for recovery and redemption. Very few people can articulate the cycles of abuse and institutionalization that occurs within our juvies and adult prisons. He tells a cracking yarn. See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Two of The Betoota Advocate's favourite recurring guests, Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos, return to the podcast this week to discuss their most recent investigation. These two men are both very smart and quite humorous - particularly when they find a niche mystery and dedicate months to solving it. Right now, they are looking into a lo-fi Kanye West-themed video game from the early 2010s - which they believe may actually have been used by a cult to recruit members. Very funny stuff, but al...
Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On the eve of season 3, Australia’s most well known ‘Buyer’s Agent’ Simon Cohen appears on The Betoota Advocate Podcast. Clancy and Errol quiz The King Of Bondi about this hysterical housing market. Is it a bubble? Where are the gold mines? What does a buyers agent do? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clancy Overell and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
