The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local North Sydney cattle grazier Digby McAngus (66) says after a hellish couple years of drought, the last few weeks of rain has been a God send. "It's been tough mate. The earth was cracking. We nearly ran out of water in dam. It hasn't been a good time for the North Shore beef industry, let me...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The windy, twisty roads of the French Quarter were once slick and greasy in the years before they were paved with cobblestones. Nowadays, the cobblestones are long gone. Paved over with a thick, solid layer of bitumen, concrete and asphalt. Thanks to the Simpson Desert tech boom that brought the likes of Packard-Bell and Compaq...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has compromised with dissidents within his own party by agreeing to increase the amount of go each Newstart payment has in it. Scotty From Marketing's latest focus group on the matter also suggested that renaming the unemployment benefit might help inspire people to 'get off their arses'. The typical daggy dad spoke to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In some exciting entertainment news this morning, Channel Nine have confirmed that the ratings monster Married At First Sight will be back next year - but not as we know it! Refusing to rest on their laurels, the executives behind the show that is set to be charged with murder for the death of My Kitchen Rules have...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In what was a bit of a comical scene, three Sydney University students caused havoc around the city's inner suburbs yesterday. The three young males were filmed running through the grounds of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the suburb of Camperdown after escaping from their all-male college up the road. Members of the general population looked on...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing has declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus an “unknown global shock” before going quiet for 12 hours and demanding his media team refuse to answer questions from journalists about his whereabouts. Today it can be revealed that the Prime Minister has once again been confronted with a situation well and truly too urgent for his bureaucratic...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A man from Victoria who's never really been that far north in this country has told people on the internet today that he knows everything there is to know about the live export trade. And it's all bad. Kevin Wapjohns is about 90% sure he's never been north of Byron Bay, where he was last year...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A 78-year-old American man who believes that his own citizens shouldn't have to sell their homes to pay for cancer treatment, and that people who work three jobs shouldn't be living in poverty appears to be the number one pick for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Radical socialist Bernie Sanders is continuing to surprise the democratic establishment by once...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister held a press conference this morning to announce the nation has enacted its 'coronavirus management plan' but stopped short of declaring the highly-infectious virus a national emergency. In Canberra this morning, Scotty From Marketing explained that pandemics such as the coronavirus have always been 'part-and-parcel' with Australian life and that the findings...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has labelled Norweigan energy company, Equinor, a 'bunch of cowards' after the conglomerate decided not to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight. Equinor revealed today via a press release that they 'no longer considered' drilling for oil in one of the nation's great natural wonders to be 'commercially viable'. The Advocate...