The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Overell Street Bridge is set to be replaced next year prompting an outpouring of grief from the community over fears it may never get the chance to host a thrilling conclusion to a car chase. Built during the spring of 1929, the drawbridge that spans the mighty Diamantina was once the pride of our...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The local community has been left reeling today as a nationwide retailer with a fantastic reputation has been caught paying their staff the correct wage on their first attempt. Colon Power, home of all things electronic around the nation, came under investigation earlier this year from FairWork after being tipped off by a number of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man who drives a 2002 Holden Cruze has told reporters and friends this morning that he's abandoning his original plans to sell it after the carmaker ceased operations earlier this week. Holden's parent company, General Motors, decided to pull out of the Australian market after conceding it's not viable moving forward. That's after...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT While the nation continues to reel from the news that iconic car brand Holden will be no more, the Government has wasted little time setting the record straight on who is to blame. Despite the fact many have criticised successive federal governments for abandoning the once-great Australian automotive industry, the current Government in charge has hit out at...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT From the foyer with its seashell-embedded terrazzo floor to the framed picture of the Pope overseeing the personnel at the sign-in desk; from the oversized light fixtures to the prominent ‘Catholic’ part of its name, it would be easy to forget you are not in some sort of futuristic cathedral; if it wasn’t for the constant jangling background...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the nation comes to terms with the news that the iconic car brand Holden will close be closing down from 2021, social media giant Facebook has moved to soften the blow. Facebook has announced that it's introducing a special Holden themed filter for shared accounts in the wake of the news that General Motors will discontinue the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In some news from the South Coast of New South Wales, the volunteer firey responsible for the viral video providing Scotty from Marketing with some honest feedback has reportedly been sacked by the RFS. Paul Parker, who famously swore at the Head of Marketing during his short interview with Channel 7, says he has been sacked by the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A former convicted white-collar criminal who spent a fair bit of time in prison before getting re-elected on an anti-muslim platform has this week shared an epic #FlashBackFriday moment, after abusing Aboriginal families in Parliament, the same way she used to in the 1990s before all the electoral fraud. Speaking in Parliament late last week, Pauline Hanson has made comments...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT A dramatic scene unfolded in Betoota’s coastal sister town Magpie Bay as an honest family had their beachfront home and indoor plant collection taken away from them.  Speaking to the press and her 11k Instagram followers, family matriarch Matilda York (38) told the harrowing tale of how authorities removed her and her family from their home after failing to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the sports rort scandal continues to worsen this week, Scotty From Marketing has been forced to update some of his terminologies. This follows revelations emerging last night that Scotty and his former Sports Minister Bridget Mckenzie had been exchanging partisan colour-coded spreadsheets regarding grant applications. With that enough to worsen the scandal significantly, it was also revealed...