Betoota Talks

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.

Leader of the Australian Greens and the Member For Melbourne, Adam Bandt joins The Betoota Advocate for the Decode podcast. As the biggest leftie in Australian politics, Bandt explains just how he manages to secure such a large margin over his opponents each election - while detailing the Greens plans for 2022 and beyond.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell 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.

In the midst of the religious freedom bill debate, and just hours before Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame took to stage at the National Press Club, the Betoota Advocate’s editors interview our town's local member David Littleproud MP. As he's known in the Maranoa Electorate, “The Thrilla From Chinchilla” explains to Clancy and Errol just how the ‘Coalition’ between the...

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.

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.

For the first DECODE interview profile, The Betoota Advocate’s editors are joined by former NSW Premier and current Federal Labor Senator, Kristina Keneally. Discussing her American upbringing, her path into politics, her criticisms of the current system - and the criticisms that she faces herself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we launch our new podcast series aimed at explaining the 2022 Federal Election campaign, and politics in general. In this episode Clancy, Errol and Wendell run through the recent stories and issues that have shaped the run into this upcoming election - and introduce our new show. With multiple new episodes each week, Decode will seek to explain our convoluted political system and provide...

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.

From playing league in Brisbane’s Browns Plains to directing Zac Efron in the Flinders Ranges, Aussie actor/writer/director/producer Anthony Hayes talks to The Betoota Advocate about the long slog from playing racist murderers and drunken yobbos on TV to directing and starring in one of the biggest Australian films of 2022. His new survival thriller ‘GOLD’ is premiering on Stan t...

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.

He joined us for US election run down, and he's back to talk Scotty vs Albo. The federal campaign is well and truly underway and Channel 9’s Charles Croucher helps Clancy and Wendell break down the candidates to watch, the seats to watch - and the messages that both parties are running on.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell 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 Betoota Advocate interviews NSW Opposition leader, Chris Minns. Talking about ICAC, toll roads and lock-out laws. What is it that Labor can offer the people of NSW that they aren’t already getting from the revolving door of corruption inquiries? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the editors are joined by Australia’s most treasured singer-writer Paul Kelly. An entire podcast with PK - talking about music, family and Christmas. 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.

You might know her from Succession, you might know her as the co-host of counter-cultural US podcast Red Scare. This week, the editors talk to Dasha Nekrasova, the Belarusian-American actress, filmmaker, writer, podcaster, playboy, philanthropist. Dasha discusses her directorial debut movie, The Scary of Sixty-First, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey E...

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’s interview could have gone for hours, as the editors talk to one of Australia’s great writer’s about his transition into the world of printmaking. From semi-biographic thrillers to block printing. From angry young man to nuanced creator. He’s been described as “the bad boy of Queanbeyan Noir” - The town’s first ever triple-threat writer/poet/art...

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.

In Part 2 of this interview, Spanian discusses the very harsh transition from Boys Homes into the adult prison system. From petty crime into organized crime, and from 13 years behind bars into publishing a best selling memoir. What was happening in the streets as Sydney made the clunky pivot into innercity gentrification? And what does life look like now for the kids who were raised in Woolloomool...

The Betoota Advocate talks to one of Australia’s most unrefined and uncensored inner-city storytellers: Spanian. Between the 2000 Olympics and the NSW property boom, this week’s guest has a story that was never covered in Domain. In Part 1 of the long-awaited interview with Spanian, the editors dig into some of the most shocking stories that feature in Spanian’s new memoirs: The...

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.

You’ve heard them on the radio, now hear them on our podcast. Matt Okine and Alex Dyson join The Advocate’s editors to talk about a range of topical issues. We recorded this episode a few weeks about and had a few time-sensitive podcast comes around so at long last, here it is.  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.