Starting the tour in Townsvilleon on November 3, Betoota will hit every corner of the country including dates in Darwin, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Wollongong, Newcastle, Perth, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Canberra before winding up in Sydney at the Opera House on Saturday 1 December.

Tickets are already on sale for the  thirteen city tour and you can pick yours up here.

The Betoota Advocate has long thrived in the print, online, radio and podcast worlds, and this will be the first time it is brought to life on stage.

Following mass lay-offs in Australian media and the merger of Channel 9 and Fairfax, the newspaper’s editors will visit each corner of the country explaining how, in this day and age, they have managed to keep a newspaper in the black.

“This is the first of its kind, it’s the first time The Advocate has been invited to spearhead such a project. Since our transition into digital media in 2014, we’ve garnered this cult-like following around the country and we felt it time to head out on the road to share the story with everyone,” Clancy Overell said.

In a brutally honest 90-minute presentation, editor Clancy Overell and editor-at-large Errol Parker—along with a very special guest—will take the audience on a journey through the town of Betoota; exploring the origins of The Advocate and explaining how to run a media empire of this size in 2018.

Nationally known and loved for its jocular headlines and witty take on the zeitgeist of modern Australia, The Betoota Advocate has developed a widespread and fiercely loyal readership since its inception.

Growing from humble beginnings, The Betoota Advocate is increasingly becoming one of Australia’s most widely read news publications. It boasts 7 million+ web hits and over 19 million engagements across social media per month; and has teamed up with the likes of Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and Sir Richard Branson.

Vowing to “continue to report real and apolitical news” and never allow their organisation to be “hijacked by any of the family news dynasties”, The Betoota Advocate has won over disenchanted millennials and attracted attention internationally.

TOUR DATES:

TOWNSVILLE                                  Saturday 3 November – The Civic

DARWIN                                          Sunday 4 November – Darwin Entertainment Centre

TOOWOOMBA                               Tuesday 6 November – Empire Theatre

BRISBANE                                        Thursday 8 November – QPAC

GOLD COAST                                  Friday 9 November – Nightquarter

WOLLONGONG                              Sunday 11 November – Anita’s Theatre

NEWCASTLE                                    Tuesday 13 November – The Civic

PERTH                                              Friday 16 November – Astor Theatre

MELBOURNE                                  Saturday 17 November – Hamer Hall

HOBART                                          Sunday 18 November – Odeon Theatre

ADELAIDE                                        Thursday 22 November – AEC Theatre

CANBERRA                                      Friday 30 November – Llewelyn Hall

SYDNEY                                            Saturday 1 December – Sydney Opera House