The Nation

26 May, 2015. 14:34 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Sydney Opera House’s 1500-seat Joan Sutherland Theatre, the Sydney home of Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet, will have to be closed for several months to undergo maintenance and the removal of the giant wooden soap box currently sitting in the centre of the venue after yesterday's TedX event. The Opera House said, in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In what many political analysts are calling a pre-election media stunt, Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been photographed eating an entire glass schooner while having lunch at the Freemasons Hotel in Tamworth this morning. Witnesses gasped as the New England MP began to casually take bites out of his beer glass while watching the pub's...

25 May, 2015. 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact With the introduction of light rail and ongoing suburban sprawl, the 'Bush Capital' of Canberra, ACT now has a population bigger than some countries. Due to the weather and unique culture, one direct comparison that has been made is with the Nordic nation of Iceland. Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, says that every...

23 May, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF YOU'RE A HOT GAY WOMAN, then bite your tongue and vote for the Coalition government this July, because they might've found some middle ground on the polarising issue of gay marriage. After a series of high-level talks between senior members of the Liberal and National Party, a policy agreement was established,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WANTING TO GET TO the bottom of an age-old mystery, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in Sydney commissioned a study into Tooheys Extra Dry Platinums, a brew notorious for its higher-than-average alcohol content. What the report found has rocked the Australian liquor industry. The report concluded that nothing good ever happens if a day's...

20 May, 2016. 09:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact INSPIRED BY THE DECADENCE and grand opulence of general admission areas of racecourses around Australia, affordable fashion label Tarocash has debuted a selection of high-quality garments to screaming crowds in Sydney this morning. They're designed to be a low-cost alternative to what else is on offer, with some suggestion that the trendy threads...

19 May, 2016. 15:55 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE THE ONLY BOOK she's read cover to cover was penned by Jamie Oliver, a 28-year-old fashion professional is busy telling everybody she can that's she's figured out how to torrent Game of Thrones. Kaycee Rotella said she followed the step-by-step instructions she found on a 'deep-web' page and before too long,...

19 May, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT State Of Origin football. Not since the days of gladiatorial combat have we seen a competition so fierce, a rivalry so deeply engrained and a tribal supporter base so loyal. Game 1 is less than a fortnight away and it's clear that our home state is putting in the hard yards to put another series...

18 May, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SHEENA DECKHART IS TORN between her blind love for a Gold Logie-winning presenter and her outright determination not to consume animal products. Last night, Waleed Aly grabbed the bandleader's baton and lead the march toward getting to the bottom of the rotten mess that is the dairy industry, which he ended with...

17 May, 2016. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact REACHING OUT TO HIS wide group of Sydney-based mates, Brett Cranfield was left in a bit of a pickle after being invited by a close business associate to a Sydney Swans match. The 27-year-old office worker doesn't have a Swans scarf, so he decided to take to Facebook, asking friends if he...