The Nation

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...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Publishers of the nation's most popular journalism textbooks are contemplating the idea of removing the section that teaches students that broadcaster Alan Jones is off limits and should be largely left to his own devices. Long considered to be an unwritten law of the fourth estate, The Advocate can reveal that it's actually written...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Senator Malcolm Roberts has dismissed claims the Amazon rainforest is on fire, despite the catastrophic event making international news. Roberts told the media this morning in Yulara that he was under the impression that rainforests can't burn, as they're full of rain. "Rain doesn't burn," he said. "Therefore a rainforest cannot burn. If that doesn't make sense,...

INGRID DOULTON | Local News | Contact A local city worker has done the math and came to the conclusion that she's not getting much bang for her private health insurance buck - so she's dumped it. For the time being, Wendy Spears says she can do without the luxury. She told our reporter that she's healthy, she looks after herself. Mornings...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As young parents around the nation finally get their heads around the fact that blackface is never appropriate, the 2019 Book Week festivities has gone off without a hitch. This year's theme is “Reading is my Secret Power” - and kids right around the country are dressing up as their favourite literary figures. Or their parents' favourite literary figures....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Former Senator Derryn Hinch abhors gun violence. He says guns kill people, not people. He doesn't like sophomoric, unfunny journalism. There are many things in this world that Derryn 'Justice' Hinch doesn't like. The Human Headline, who came to the Senate not by writing a cheque to local dark arts agency, AAA Aardvark Preference Whisper &...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Walking into the Old City District's Kellett's Gunsmith & Grocers on Market Street and the many things that catch the eye will say that winter is ending and the spring is starting. As it hasn't rained again this winter, spring is expected to be just as catastrophically depressing and sad for everyone in town as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland police will have new powers to search protesters they suspect of possessing so-called "locking devices", under new laws to be introduced to State Parliament Annastacia Palaszczuk told Parliament the protester crackdown comes on advice from the Police Commissioner, as Brisbane becomes the coalface for protesting irresponsible policy related to pollution and fossil fuel dependance. The Premier says blocking...