Betoota Talks

It's been an unprecedented couple months of natural disasters down the east coast of Australia. From Gympie to Lismore, to the Hawkesbury River out the back of Sydney. And with this changing climate, comes new responsibilities for our Federal Politicians. Today on the Decode Podcast, we speak to the Shadow Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Murray Watt (ALP). A former Chief Of Staff to Anna Bligh, and a former State Minister during her time as Premier. This episode's guest is a stalwart of Queensland Labor, and he's still not ready to predict a change of government at this Federal Election.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.

Another hopeful Federal Independent joins the Betoota Advocate this week, as we zone in one one of the more exciting types of political campaign: The celebrity candidate. Former Wallabies flanker David Pocock joins Clancy and Errol to discuss his surprising bid to become one of the two Federal Senators from the ACT. The 33-year-old former Rugby Union star talks about his hyper-local campaign to fight for a better Canberra, and his interesting focus on sustainable agriculture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

As the global streaming services make their move on an Australian market, there's has never been a better time to be working in - or watching - Aussie TV. This week, the editors interview someone with one of the most exciting and exhausting roles in our country's media landscape. Que Minh Luu, content direct for Netflix, speaks the Betoota Advocate about the next wave of content that her team are putting out. From the Heartbreak High reboot, to the upcoming Boy Swallows Universe series - to the first programme out the gate: Byron Baes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

In this episode, The Betoota Advocate finally lands access to one of the big hitters of the Liberal Party. Victorian Senator Jane Hume was more than willing to join the Decode podcast to discuss everything that both she and her party stands for. As well as everything they hope to achieve for the Australian people beyond the 2022 election. A Moderate-Modern Liberal, Hume talks about her love of working with the private sector and keeping the government out of our lives. Finally a Lib with a sense of humour!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 fourth interview profile for Betoota's new Decode series, Clancy and Errol talk to Allegra Spender, the Independent candidate for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. After interviewing a range of high-ranking figures from the Nationals, Labor and the Greens - The Betoota Advocate has today zoned in on the newest force in Australian politics, the Independents. With a long line of Liberal MPs and Ambassadors in her family tree, Allegra Spender has put her hand up to run AGAINST them in Wentworth at the 2022 Federal Election. In this episode, she explains why.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.

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 Nationals and Liberals works. Littleproud also details his personal plans for the future of the Nats, and what on earth they are going to do about China’s trade tariffs crippling just about every export industry in Western Queensland.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.

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 an alternative style of coverage to this election. The new feed will feature weekly wrap ups, interviews and explanations of how all the important cogs in our politician work (The Labor Party, The Liberal Party, Lobbying, The Culture Wars etc). So give it a listen and subscribe to the new feed here: https://omny.fm/shows/decodeSee 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.

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 this January 26. 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.

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 Epstein.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’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/artist, Omar Musa.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.

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 Woolloomoolloo and Redfern during the wild old days?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Unfiltered Hood Life. Car theft, break and enters, drug dealing and the jail time that follows. The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian (with Christopher Kevin Au) Hachette Australia, 1 December, $34.99See 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’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.

On the eve of Australian boxing’s biggest showdown since well before the pandemic, promoter Georgie Rose jumps on the podcast to talk about the sport’s return to glory. It’s a glow up that has been led by both the Tszyu and Rose families. Timmy Tszyu takes on Takeshi Inoue this Wednesday at Qudos Arena in Sydney - and it’s only one of three epic fights that the Rose boys are putting on in November.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.

Throughout the pandemic, home life became more like a job than ever before. With kids at home, and grandparents locked away - many young families had A LOT going on. This week’s guest has become Australia’s face of early parenthood throughout all of this. Mummy blogger, columnist and podcaster Amy Gerard joins the The Betoota Advocate to tell us about her year, her career, and her warts and all storytelling.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.

Have you ever wondered what an NFT is? We’ll wonder no more as Artist Scott Marsh and man of the internet Adam Decata tell us what they are and how they’re pretty much the future of everything. If you want to make some crisp folding ones in the next year or so, sounds like you should know what an NFT 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.

This week on the show, tyrant of popular culture HG Nelson drops in to talk about his new book “The Fairytale: A Real And Imagined History Of Australian Sport” as well as a number of other topics such as the Brisbane Olympics, an Australian Republic and was Breaker Morant guilty or innocent?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.

One of Australia’s most treasured authors, Andy Griffith joins the podcast to talk about his storied career. Starting off as a punk rock vocalist in Melbourne, before becoming a school teacher in the bush - and then pivoting into the nation’s first punk rock figure in children’s literature.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.

Toowoomba author and journalist Lech Blaine returns to The Betoota Advocate podcast this week. This starts out as a chat about Lech’s new memoir “Car Crash” - and ends up being a yarn about how Scott Morrison secretly hates rugby league and has never been pissed. Last time he joined us we were speaking about footy and happy clapping, this time we are talking about the Australian media’s perverted interpretation of the “Larrikin”.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.

Streaming in from London, it’s one of Western Australia’s most valued exports behind iron ore and disgraced politicians. Nick Allbrook, frontman or Pond talks to the editors about being stuck overseas in a pandemic while trying to your a long awaited and critically acclaimed new album.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.

Ross is a licensed private enquiry agent and investigations editor for Independent Australia. He's also putting together the Federal ICAC Now (FIN) Party to place senate candidates in the next federal election. With more and more questionable acts and policy coming out of Canberra, a Federal ICAC is needed more now than ever. https://www.federalicacnow.org/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.