The Nation

21 August, 2015. 12:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A factory farm housing more than 8,000 almond battery trees will be built in near Ipswich, west of Brisbane. Under the controversial plans, Australia's largest ever almond plantation will be grown in industrial-scale sheds with little access to pasture or sunshine. The trees will be milked around the clock to produce 430,000 dairy-free coffees...

20 August, 2015. 10:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Australian men are pigs. That's according to a member of the infamous hacker network responsible for exposing the personal details of members of online extramarital affair service, Ashley Madison. The high-ranking champion of moral conduct, who goes by the alias of TruthMaster666, has spoken out today about the resounding statistics found in their recent...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FOR OVER 20 YEARS, The Foo Fighters have been the rock and roll tyrants of emotion. Their ballads which follow the themes of loss, alienation and rejection have struck a cord within millions around the planet - especially the tradesmen of Australia. "The Fooeys" as our hi-vis wearing brothers and sisters call them, have been a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact After making the exciting trip to The Gold Coast' red light district for a night of partying as a celebration for a close friends birthday, 18-year-old university student, Jack Beattie says he has since realised that not all strippers are nasty femme fatale. This week the Betoota Advocate was treated to an intimate sit down with...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Following a disappointing hit out for 2019, Channel 9's smash reality dating show Farmer Wants A Wife have revealed more juicy details about the upcoming series next year. This week on the podcast we spoke to playwright Tommy Murphy about his new play focused on the Packers, he's got some cracking stories. Listen here: From 2019,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BY day, Alex Greenwall is a private wealth manager with one of Australia's largest hedge funds. But by night, the 28-year-old is training for the fight of his life. His opponent, a British term deposit specialist with a penchant for violence. This is just one of many professionally organised white-collar amateur boxing matches, which are organised...

14 August, 2015. 14:44 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Bronwyn Bishop said she "actually enjoyed the experience" after she was spotted on a commercial flight today. Mrs Bishop was returning to Sydney from Canberra this afternoon when she told her fellow passengers that flying commercially wasn't as bad as she thought it was. "Normally I wouldn't be looking...

13 August, 2015. 18:36 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A DEAD CAT in a Blue Mountains National Park has started to unravel an age-old mystery while starting another one of its own. How the corpse of a 13-year-old black Maine Coon came to be found on the edge of Lithgow this week has sparked a police investigation that has a member of the...

12 August, 2015. 15:35 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S ONE OF Australia's most favourite pass times. And in light of Channel 7's decision to axe the groundbreaking reality TV series Restaurant Revolution for Cats That Make You Laugh Out Loud, it's becoming more popular than ever. Destruction by gravity has been a cornerstone in Australian entertainment for generations and people around...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact POLICE in Brisbane are calling it “fightin' in a bottle”, a type of rum known on the streets as cane champagne or biff syrup that’s making users handsome and psychotic while giving them a superhuman ability to make ripper calls and punch people senseless. The dark spirit, which cops say is prevalent in the rugby...