The Nation

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Residents of Betoota’s historic Betoota Park housing estate are up in arms today after news that the entire region has been rezoned as ‘RU1 – Primary Production’. Under the rezoning, council rates will be strategically increased to force the residents of 347 properties out, leaving the area empty and ready to be cleared for a proposed dairy...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the nation's favourite sons will be reprogrammed today to not walk on the pitch when he's not batting. Steve Smith, a popular run machine and part-time wrist-spinner, was criticised earlier this week for walking all over the pitch marks left by Indian batsman Rishabh Pant. Some in the game, most notably English, Indian and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact If NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian wanted some tips on destroying the pangolin's wrath, she should look no further than our nation's West, says the state's de facto leader Mark McGowan. West Australian Premier Mark McGowan, a former Coff Harborian who after a stint in the Navy, decided that living in the West is actually pretty...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister is facing criticism today for not cutting his family holiday short as Canberra grapples with an out-of-control fire. Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has been lighting spot fires that nobody has been able to put out, a job usually left to the Prime Minister's Office. The fires are threatening to join up,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Acting Prime Minister has today done his best to replicate the bumbling efforts of the man he's filling in for. This comes after National's Leader and fill in Michael McCormack today compared the 2019 School Climate Strike to the Capitol Hill Insurrection. "The fact that there are more protests planned in the United States is very similar...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Member for New England Barnaby Joyce has reemerged as the most competent person to lead the National Party today after current leader Michael McCormack compared civil rights protests to what happened inside the US Capitol Building last week. The former Deputy Prime Minister enjoys filming short videos of himself yelling at things such as...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT One of the sussest blokes in Australian parliament has today continued to attack Twitter for 'censorship.' George Christensen has slammed the private media company Twitter for its permanent suspension of Donald Trump's account, claiming that the attempt to stop their platform from being used to incite violence is driven by a desire to censor one of his idols....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A token office Pom revealed to The Advocate today that for the past year, he's been asked by locals if he's thankful to have had the chance to ride the spicy cough pandemic out here in Australia, rather than his native London. Maurice Clockhouse, of the French Quarter, has been living in Australia for nearly...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Chief Minister of the ACT and the person who gives him medical advice has declared the capital open to people from Brisbane again - in case anybody cares. "People from Brisbane can come and visit Canberra from tomorrow," said the ACT's de facto leader, Andrew Barr. "It's an exciting time. I mean coming to Canberra,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The search is continuing this morning for those in our fragile society that give a fuck about universities having a hard time because they don't have any international student cash cows to milk thanks to this spicy cough going 'round. One person who does care about the South Betoota Polytechnic College's plight was last seen...