The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Godfreys Vacuums say they now regret delisting from the Australian Stock Exchange in 2018 after seeing what the people have done for US video game retailer GameStop. Retail investors have gone to war with Wall Street this month by buying up shares in the bricks-and-mortar business, sending the price through the roof and in turn,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Sandy Dawson felt pretty uncomfortable this morning as she took a walk of shame, so to speak. However, rather than trundling home after a night out with heels in hand, Dawson had to briskly walk past her local French Quarter cafe with a warm beverage from another establishment. “Yeah, I wasn’t really thinking. I normally get my coffee from the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In their latest fuck you to Michael John Coleman, the Order of Australia Council has snubbed the 45-year-old father again for his services to shooting local speed cameras. Mr Coleman is beloved in his community for his tireless work against the toad-throated pigs who run this state from Number 1 William Street. Since 2004, when...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact New Zealand has topped the Lowy Institute's COVID Performance Index, leaving nations such as Vietnam and Thailand in its wake. Nobody knows how New Zeland was able to pull off such a feat but some in the industry have claimed it might have something to do with New Zealand being extremely isolated, insignificant economically on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local bank employee said he's the sole member of the "💦 Tummy Sticks 2021 💦" group chat who works in a banking - which makes him the go-to when things such as the GameStop saga take place. Shooting from the hip, Wal Tenberine, an assistant manager of the Dockhouse Road Diamantina Credit Union branch,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Another eventless evening drew to a close at the Dolphins Leagues Club at 10 pm last night. Roger Dunston rang the bell for last drinks, locked the pokies, took the tills and told the barman to get them all out by 10:30. It's not the 24-year-old's first rodeo and it certainly won't be his last. But until...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Frequently-misunderstood mining magnate Clive Palmer has put the 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine, that he purchased last year for the benefit of the nation, on the Coolum Gumtree web classifieds today. Mr Palmer, who out of the goodness of his own heart, purchased the potentially lifesaving drug in the fight against the Pangolin's Revenge. When...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The nation's peak rugby body has welcomed news that New Zealanders will no longer be allowed to come to Australia without first completing 2-weeks quarantine. Rugby Australia CEO Rob Clarke spoke to the media this morning in Sydney where he explained having no New Zealand teams in the Super Rugby this seasons could be just...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact You think you've ever had the shit shocked out of you? Because one Betoota Heights father said you haven't had the shit shocked out of you until you've been flogging the guts out of a Holden Captiva overtaking two road trains at a time, pushing the lazy pig all the way up to 7400 rpm,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large |Contact The Federal Government has extended an invitation to the people of Australia to start using the Government's own search engine when US tech-giant Google inevitable packs up and leaves Australia forever. Google and the Morrison Government have been locked in negotiations over the Media Bargaining Code which should see online and independent news in this country...