The Nation

22 August, 2016. 17:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The racist Port Adelaide Supporter who was filmed hurling a banana at Adelaide Crow's superstar Betts in the dying seconds of the Crows’ Showdown win after the mercurial forward’s fifth goal in his 250th game, has today received an indefinite ban from all further Port Adelaide matches. Eddie Betts has refused to comment...

22 August, 2016. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S SOMETHING THAT MOST parents discover when their child first gets their hands on a musical instrument. How their kid, with their tiny lungs and little hands, can make enough noise to raise the Queen Mother from the grave. Nights that used to be filled with a type rampant alcoholism that only a overpaid...

22 August, 2016 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the rise of online streaming, and the rapid decline of anything worth watching on free-to-air television, this morning's Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony has marked the last time any Australian families will sit down together to watch Channel 7 together. This historical moment comes as the station's staple soap opera 'Home & Away' finds audiences both...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HE IS RIGHT AND EVERYBODY ELSE is wrong - Peter Hall knows everything there is to know about World War II, more than some chinless Brisbane trivia host who's only trying to earn his hundred clams and go home. Sometimes he even does trivia on his own, just to prove a point. "What was the Allied...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK IN the afternoon and Kevin Geraghty's stomach is rumbling. As a young professional with close to nine thousand dollars worth of credit card debt and a backpack full of broken dreams, the 28-year-old  said he tries to tighten his fiscal belt when it comes to feeding himself during the week. However, it's Friday and...

16 August, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER A BUSY MORNING PRESSURING HIS adult children into moving out of his house, semi-retired architect Michael Greenholm thought he'd put his afternoon to better use and visit his local Bunnings. He often uses moments like a drive to Bunnings to enjoy a Peter Stuyvesant. Sometimes he takes the long way there,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Dressed in a silky black maxi dress with thigh-high slit and carrying a light grey tote bag, Hollywood star Margot Robbie looked every bit one of the world's most bankable new actresses, turning plenty of heads at Brisbane International Airport on Sunday arvo, before jumping into her uncle's commodore and making the two hour...

STEVE PORTER| Food | Contact There comes a moment in man's life when he comes to a fork in the road - should you just buy a pot of hair gel and surrender yourself to a life of Carlton Draught and $10 steaks? Or should you have one last crack at it? For a 37-year-old McDonald's manager, the choice was easy....

15 August, 2016. 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Olympic gold-medalist swimmer, Michael Klim's new fragrance "KLIM" has been praised by the Australian men's skincare and beauty industry for it's 'honest, bold and masculine' smell. Mens Health Magazine have given "KLIM" a 9/10 review, as leading health and beauty editor, Bert (56), says the new scent makes you feel like you are...

15 August, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CLUTCHING AN ORGANIC AVOCADO, smelling it for ripeness, Andrew 'Woodrow' Coolidge strode through his local farmers market with one burning question on his tongue. Farmers make a lot of money and most of them aren't afraid to spend it on things they don't really need, so why do farmers drive such ugly...