The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the biggest propeller heads in Rugby League is set to keep his job at News Corp as the company announced today that hundreds of jobs will be lost in a restructuring of their operations. Buzz Rothfield, the negging boyfriend of God's winter game, will tragically keep his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rugby Australia has been left laughing at their own mistake today after remembering that they actually already have an explosive, action-packed domestic competition, just days after announcing a new one. Interim CEO Rob Clarke spoke briefly to the media this morning outside Rugby Australia's headquarters in Sydney's east, where he apologised on behalf of the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The federal Opposition leader claimed on television earlier this week that someone would've been able to see this $60bn error the government made with their corona stimulus package from space. The Advocate has been able to confirm this morning that Anthony Albanese failed to see this problem from Earth, which is much closer to the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact According to local bats, their mate Brett was just an ordinary bat going about his business as a bat. Technically, they never knew him. Not many bats alive today knew him personally. But Brett has become the pin-up boy for the coronavirus, which made the jump from the flying mammals to humans, allegedly. To bats...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Australia's youth-orientated broadcaster has committed to buy every remaining coal-fired power station in the country today after yesterday's Hazelwood controlled demolition out-rated their most-popular show. The Hazelwood power plant demolition yesterday attracted well over a million viewers around the country on a number of different mediums and platforms, something largely unseen in broadcast television today. Due...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Eleven-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater reportedly faced relentless surfing conditions at Avalon Beach on Friday, breaking two surfboards in the water, as he finally showed his face to his new neighbours. The American surfing great has based himself in Australia throughout the coronavirus outbreak, and was cheered by thousands of adoring fans as he took on Friday’s...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local high school teacher has shocked absolutely nobody today after sharing some extremely hectic opinions on the Federal and State Governments with her friends over dinner. Denise Coleman teaches English at South Betoota Comprehensive and if you know her, she's been extremely vocal these past few weeks about how the government has bungled their...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A socially-popular local roadworker brought the tent down at smoko this morning with his impression of an overweight property investor complaining about losing money on a Betoota Heights display home. Pulling the skin down under his chin and blowing his gut out, Damien Haynes crab-walked around the area in front of the smoko tent on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One programme was once considered the highwater mark of broadcast journalism and the other has always been considered the low one. But as of this morning, the tides have met in the middle. The Bismark of broadcast journalism has finally succumbed to the torpedos of progress. "If only Kerry was alive to see this," they laughed. "He'd...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Now that the southeast corner of our fine state has reopened for business, a local advertising executive decided it might be nice to take the train to the airport for his trip to Brisbane this time instead of calling a taxi. Mark Dalpooley likes to support the taxi industry, something he likes to tell his...