The Nation

15 January, 2015. 13:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The increasingly irrelevant "Youth Radio Network" Triple J has once again been rescued from an obscure start to the new year with the annual social media buzz surrounding the upcoming "Hottest 100". The countdown, which is a chance for "Triple J listeners" to get together and vote for the countries favourite 100 homegrown...

28 February, 2015. 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Early last month, seventeen people, including journalists and police and three gunmen -  died in France during a terrifying week that started with the execution style murder of several journalists inside their Parisian CBD newspaper office The bloodshed ended with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in which four hostages were killed. The attacks...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN enterprising New South Wales farmer has made millions selling his ruined work clothing to the inner city cultural elite. Life on the land is growing less attractive to young people as a future career in agriculture seems quite dim - particularly with the ongoing drought. However, not for 63-year-old wheat grower and sheep grazier Michael Clarkedale...

INGRID DOULTON | Community and social | Contact In the wake of the 212 drug-related arrests at Sydney's City Limits music festival over the weekend, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has today announced that the state of New South Wales has been left with no choice but introduce a new model to combat drug use at music festivals. The implementation of new 3D scanners looks to...

6 January, 2014. 12:34 IMRAN GASHKORI | Editor-at-large | Contact AN armchair critic of the Australian cricket team has urged the players to "get up close and personal" with the Indians today at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Speaking from his blonde brick apartment in Cronulla, home to Sydney's last segregated public toilet, the obviously drunk and husky man says that our spearhead...

4 January, 2015. 15:15 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE ABC has been secretly planning the cancellation of its entire news and current affairs department for at least a month – with their axing likely before the end of this year financial year, a few sources claim. On Friday, Fairfax Media revealed the national broadcaster has been covertly developing a reality television show...

2 January, 2014. 8:41 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PEOPLE around the country were deeply moved by the news this morning that Peter FitzSimons is finally ready to admit he is bald. The former Wallaby great and lauded historian-turned-author ended years of speculation this morning on Twitter, saying he is "finally being true to himself". Rumors that FitzSimons was bald began to circulate...

1 January, 2015. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Less than a month after Premier Mike Baird refused to indicate just where over $13 billion from the sale of electricity assets was to be spent, a report has been leaked highlighting plans to extend Sydney’s rail network all the way to Bondi Beach. With $5 billion set aside for the Western Harbour...

    31 December, 2014. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   This festive season is shaping up to be a desperate time for many dog breeders, as increasing pressure from animal rights extremists has seen a sharp decline in the sales for many traditional Australian puppy farms. “It’s been a tough year for all of us, the sales are way way down in what has traditionally...

28 December, 2014. 12:51 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BOXER DANNY GREEN has allegedly been charged with "an act of piracy" after trying to lead a mutiny against Perpetual Loyal skipper Anthony Bell. The 100-foot supermaxi was reported to have withdrawn from the Sydney to Hobart yacht race yesterday after taking on water near Eden on the far south coast of...