The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Queensland family has been accused by Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton of needlessly wasting $10 million of taxpayer money in their fight against being deported. Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa (of Biloela, Q.) have been on in detention on Christmas Island for more than a year awaiting a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the nation watches the NSW Government implode for the second time in a matter of months, Australians have been able to breathe a sigh of relief as this type of rampant corruption doesn't happen on a federal level. "I guess we're the lucky country," said one man on the street today outside The...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Daryl Maguire paints a sad picture as he sits on the floor of The Advocate's Sydney Bureau office in Barangaroo. The boyish sparkle in his eye isn't there anymore. Hunted by the media all day. It's almost 4pm as he kicks his boots off and rolls out flat on his back in the telephone room. He does a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Interim Rugby Australia CEO Rob Clarke fronted the media this morning with his characteristic happy-go-lucky sensibility to announced rugby's peak body had trapped 23 new marketing professionals overnight. Before he left work yesterday, Mr Clarke said he pulled the old pigeon trap out from under Rugby's Sydney headquarters and carried it up on the roof. "I've...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Anthony Albanese is aware of the influence and power News Corp still holds on this continent. Which is part of the reason why he hasn't exactly echoed the sentiments of Kevin Rudd this week as the former Prime Minister launched an offical petition to parliament over News Corps continued influence on our...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Our Bloke-In-Chief Scott Morrison has told the nation to just "bloody have a holiday at home this year" because local economies need the income boost and "you could have the coronavirus." Or, he says, you could be forced to head on up to the best state in Australia on a working holiday because "there's no...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the World Health Organisation revises their lockdown advice this week, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced today that Melbourne's lockdown has now entered the critical punishment phase. The punishment phase is critical because without it, says Andrews, people in Melbourne are at danger of becoming complacent moving forward. "This phase of our recovery involves punishing Victorians...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a day of damning ICAC inquiries, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has this afternoon fronted the media with some big revelations. Ms Berejiklian is speaking after her explosive appearance at the independent crime commisison in which she admitted a personal relationship with disgraced Liberal MP Daryl Maguire, who decided to cut a dirty deal with the Chinese after he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact New South Wales Premier Glayds Berejiklian has told the state's corruption watchdog today that her relationship with former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire was the dream of every girl from Sydney's North Shore. Mr Maguire is currently facing a corruption inquiry after allegedly taking kickbacks from property developers. But Mr Maguire, as a soft, moleskin-wearing country boy...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact And just like that, the Kiwi Titanic that is the All Blacks has collided with the Green and Gold iceberg and is now pretending that everything is going to be OK. It won't be. The Wallabies' 16-16 draw yesterday with the All Blacks in Wellington spells the beginning of the end of rugby union in New...