The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Shadow Minister for Education and Training Tanya Plibersek has today rocked up to the Parliament House rocking a fresh new hoodie. The popular Member for Sydney displayed her new ALP sanctioned AntiSocialSocialClub as Labor faces renewed questions about Chinese influence over the party. This follows revelations that the Chinese developer behind the multi-billion-dollar Gold Coast Jewel and One Circular...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Summoned from the man chair inside one of our town's most bespoke bedding boutiques, a local city worker learned that a $359 linen doona cover is a bargain and needs to be purchased. "Oh wow," he said. "That's a lot of money." Our reporter overheard the conversation on Sunday afternoon, as they were visiting the French Quarter...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just days after getting is recreational pilot licence , a local grazier started to offer to take his mates up for a joy flight. But Otto Granger revealed this morning that hasn't got any bites on the offer. The 28-year-old wool and grain producer from our town's fertile Diamantina River plain to the north...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local Gen-X book publishing account manager, Heidi Stefani (46) has today applied a Buddhist proverb to pretty standard frustration that millions of people have had to endure. Like most members of that awkward generation between the people that invented TV and the people that invented social media, Heidi is of the opinion that Buddhism is a really cool form...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact A recent report carried out by Australia’s peak scientific body, the CSIRO, has found a juicy – and in hindsight, obvious – correlation between Piaggio MP3’s and breastfeeding. For those not educated in the field of 3-wheeled scooters, the Piaggio MP3 is the motorised scooter that has two front wheels and one rear wheel – the ones you see...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As Australian cities continue to self-alienate in order to form the semblance of some identity anthropologists are noticing how similar we still are. Most notably, anthropologists have noted the similarities between NSW towns of Bondi and Byron Bay, that although separated between 750kms of roads have more in common than just the British backpackers that choose to overstay their...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The British Government, represented by a envoy made up of park crickets, has agreed to an history soft border agreement with Australia. Under the terms of the agreement, England agrees to let as many Australians through their borders as our government deems fit. The agreement is not a two-way street, however, with Australia refusing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Toot your little horn all you want, he doesn't give a fuck. The world's most important cunt has been located, at long last. He drives a Peugeot 508 and lives in Betoota Heights. The spine of Hinze Link Road in the Flightpath District is lined on each backstrap by a solid white line. A line, in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Laughing at Joe Root's decision to bat first, watching Warner get settled and new hope from the West Marcus Harris get caught behind, it was a shaky start but a local cricket fan said he was feeling confident. As Harris walked back to the sheds, the rain rolled in a play was suspended. Hamish Dearman, who'd...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The business brought the curse of the internet to Australia and the investment that springboarded Malcolm Turnbull from Bond Street to Mayfair still lives on in the hearts and minds of those who think the online world is just a fad. One of them lives locally in Betoota Grove, but owns a warehouse and a...