The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After spending the last couple years leaning on a shovel, local Betoota Heights man Keiran Smithers (30) says it's always good to up-skill when you start seeing work slow down a bit. Keiran says it'll be hard finding a pay packet as fat as what he's gotten used to as an NBN contractor pushing himself as little as possible...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Several minefields outside Sistak in central Croatia have been earmarked to replace the Sydney Cricket Ground in all future fixtures amid safety concerns over the surface's quality. The news comes after the weekend soccer fixture between the blue team and the other blue team at the SCG where one of the other blue teams players...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Local smartphone user Karen Strzelecki (35) has learnt the true feeling of regret after setting her phone on silent and not being able to fucking find it. Wanting to relax in a world free from group chat notifications, Strezlecki set her phone to silent and proceeded to live her life stress-free for a few hours as if she were...

INGRID DOULTON | Culture| Contact A savvy Maid of Honour named Bridget Elkic is today receiving accolades for the way she planned her friend's Hens day/night this week. The group made up of friends scattered between Betoota Heights, Brisbane and the Gold Coast initially were a little sceptical of having to head down towards the Free Settlement of Adelaide for a big weekend...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact QANTAS, the country's most well-regarded airline has suffered a direct hit this morning after they announced they were banning Senator Fraser Anning from their Chairman's Lounge. Following the former One Nation Senator's appalling comments in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, the airline decided to revoke Fraser Anning's access to the prestigious lounge, a move which has sent...

JEN OVERELL | Local News | Contact Three people were arrested last night at the O'Malley Brothers Feedlot on the Betoota City Limits after police and landowners caught them attempting to free livestock from the facility. Dale Pegmen (21), Sarah Porce-Jones (23) and Kevin Cockbrow (32) fronted Betoota Local Court this morning where they were each charged with a string...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "We didn't know we were killing the planet," they said. "So it's not our fault. Believe us, we feel really bad about what we've done to Earth but in reality, it's not really our problem, is it?" Graham and Butter Reece, an ageing Betoota Grove couple, have recently return home to our cosmopolitan desert community after...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Christmas Island Detention Centre that was reopened in February in an effort to retain conservative voters is now set to be closed in an effort to win over fiscally-conservative but socially-liberal voters. The detention facility was Frankenstiened back to life at cost of around $180 million to the taxpayer amid fears the passing of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A disabled local man in urgent need of a new wheelchair has sided with the Coalition government this morning saying he too would rather kill ants than received a new wheelchair. The National Disability Scheme (NDIS) is $1.6 billion worse of under this budget and some of that money could've gone to provided Glenn Washbrook...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered his first budget in Canberra this evening and every Australian will be better off under it. That fact heralds a departure from traditional Federal Budgets which need at least one group of people in the community to be worse off in order for some to be better off. Also, for the first...