The Nation

29 April, 2016. 13:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS THE CLASSIC JOKE would allude to, how do you know if somebody is a member of Royal Sydney Golf Club? They'll tell you. Now a 69-year-old disabled transgender Jewish Aboriginal woman can tell everybody who'll listen that she's become the first of her background to become a part of the exclusive organisation. Baayami Noccabrara...

28 April, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THEY DIGITALLY PRINT anything you want onto dog raincoats - an industry without a monopoly until now. For the directors of DoggyDropz, a brand new Castle Hill-based tech startup, it's been quite a lucrative corner of the canine apparel market for them. It's a $AUD94 000 a year national market and for founders...

28 April, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact MALCOLM TURNBULL SPENT THIS morning sitting back in his chair, tossing a Turf King as close to the ceiling as possible. He does this every time Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton fuck up. More and more red scuff marks have appeared on the roof of his Canberra office recently, which is indicative of the...

MERV HARRIS | Culture | CONTACT In breaking news, local mother of three Kimberly Seeto is set to be offered the undesirable job of tuckshop convenor at the next meeting of the Betoota State Primary School P&F. P&F secretary Jamie Croon - the father of dimwitted year two student Jason - revealed to The Betoota Advocate that Mrs Seeto is set to be offered...

28 April, 2016. 10:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOME OF HIS MATES have start squealing like a pig whenever he enters a room. Close friends introduce him to other people as "my dumb friend who can't read" and "the pig man". It's not because he loves to strap on the feedbag and eat himself into a coma, nor does he snout...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After 26 years in operation, and nearly sixteen different 'rebrands' - the Australian coffeehouse-style café chain, The Coffee Club is still insisting on serving chicken salted chips as a side to every meal. 2018 saw a 'new and improved' fit-out for the Australian dining institution, with the inclusion of more modern cuisine, such as 'vegetarian' and 'steamed' options on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has today admitted that the River City was far cooler when it had an operational roller-coaster inside the five-story Myer Centre. The Lord Mayor's comments were made during question time today, as he reminisced about 'TOPS!' the mini amusement park hosted at the top level of the Queens Street shopping in the 90's The park’s biggest...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT ONLY SEEMED LIKE yesterday when 56-year-old retired banker Richard Cullens was sitting in the back of his father's XC Falcon smoking reefer with his high school sweetheart - listening to Prince, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and George Michael. But today, those nostalgic memories of a time gone by, before he had a wife, kids,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A BID TO CLAW back some of the ransom money paid for the freedom of Tara Brown and the 60 Minutes crew, Nine Entertainment Co confirmed today that a book has been released detailing the experience. The gonzo journalistic account of the television presenter's time in Beirut was ghostwritten by Matthew Reilly - an...

21 April, 2016. 14:05 PADDY MUNRO | Contributor | CONTACT The notorious DEFQON.1 music festival has been forced to alter its Sydney line up in order to receive a much needed boost in funding from the Australian Federal Government The notorious hard-styles festival’s Dutch organiser, Q-Dance, announced yesterday it has added a new contemporary music stage and chardonnay bar to its 2016 takeover of...