The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN THE DAYS BEFORE PUBLICAN Artie Harper climbed up on his high horse, the only thing in his run-down-by-homely-inner-city watering hole that was even close to 80 clams was a warm magnum of Chandon that you'd be lucky to get an ice bucket for. Known to locals as being a tough, but fair publican, the...

10 October, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE YEAR WAS 1969 and Malcolm Collins' parents both had the same unquenchable lust for motorsport - a fact that put them on a collision course that culminated in a midnight rendezvous in a mud puddle atop Mount Panorama. "Yeah, about 7 months later I was born," explained Collins, who now works...

10 October 2016. 12:25 WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Prospective home buyers, Sally Simpson and Tony Johnstone had their Saturday morning ruined by a real estate agent who could not stop going on about how busy he is. Making the trip from Betoota out to Sydney the pair was simply trying to find a new home and a change of scenery. Instead, the young...

10 October, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A GLEN INNES GREYHOUND OWNER'S world is in tatters this morning after news broke that NSW Premier Michael Baird was planning to backflip on his decision to outlaw greyhound racing - just days after the owner dug a series of mass graves. As Allen Gregory was set to become the owner of...

7 October, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE HAVING A RUN-OF-THE-MILL sob story, friendly mid-functioning drug addict Mickey Pascoe has chosen not to share it with us, saying that our interview fee is more than enough to get him a ticket on the H-line train and a medium traditional pepperoni. Speaking candidly to The Advocate this afternoon, the 29-year-old...

6 October, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CONSTABLE MICHAEL DUXWORTH SAYS that while there's no greater thrill shooting somebody in the buttocks with a Glock 17, using a taser to transform an aggressive Falcon enthusiast into a wheezing, writhing mass kicking around in the bulldust is still pretty awesome. If you've ever been hit with one of those 21-inch extendable...

5 October, 2016. 13:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KNOWN PRIMARILY AS THE HOME of the Royal Australian Air Force's Air Combat Group, Williamtown on the outskirts of Newcastle has played host to another screech skyward for one prominent businessman down on his luck. Earlier today, disgraced former mining magnate Nathan Tinkler was promoted to the position of manager at the local...

5 October 2016. 12:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following the spectacular NRL Grand Final between the Cronulla Sharks and the Melbourne Storm, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has come good on her pre-season promise to Greg Martin from Triple M's Grill Team to get a Maroon State Of Origin tattoo live on air.   In March this year, the Premier appeared on the...

5 October 2016. 12:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Chief Executive ANZ bank has texted Malcolm Turnbull to let him know that he wishes he'd never agreed to be his son's godfather, after appearing before the Standing Committee on Economics to answer questions surrounding problems in its wealth management division and its troubled rural lending business. This week chief executives from Australia's big-four banks...

2 October, 2016. 11:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PARTS OF CENTRAL BRISBANE ARE in ruin this afternoon as the state's annual Y2K bug returns with a shocking, destructive vengeance. Often seen as nothing more than a curse put upon the great people of Queensland by the communist southern states, daylight savings time has, and will always face stiff opposition in...