The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just hours after losing his job when Facebook shutdown his wildly popular  "Australians against Sharia" page, the Bosnian teenager behind the page has been picked up by the national broadcaster to spearhead their election coverage. Zlatan Grbić, a 16-year-old social media manager from Sarajevo, said via Twitter that he's 'pleased' to take on the new...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact International man of mystery, magic and escape artistry, David Blaine, has defied death once again today by taking a flight on a crash-prone Boeing 737 Max 8. The silky-voiced New Yorker took to the skies over America, shortly after Boeing and President Trump declared that the flying death trap was not airworthy. It is understood...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Dolphins player who allegedly told police he'd consumed sixteen tins of Jim Beam & Cola, then recorded a blood alcohol level seven times over the legal limit after crashing his car, has fronted court with his confused barista today. Myles Arthur Plank, of the French Quarter, appeared before Betoota Local Court this morning...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Analysts from Betoota's favourite online betting company, CuckBet, have released odds this morning that point to the fact that the Sydney Roosters are set to have this season's premiership stripped them once their cooked books start to cool over the next few years. Many in the NRL have conceded that this season is 'basically a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Chief Boomer Appeaser of New South Boomerstan (NSB) has entered high-level talks with a number of property developers this morning in an effort to deal with the student climate strike set to happen in Sydney, the nation's worst place, tomorrow afternoon. The move comes after her election opponent, Michael Daley, said it was OK...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A naive local Staffordshire Bull Terrier owner has lied to himself, the wider public and to his own pet this afternoon by claiming that his dog wouldn't hurt a fly. Murray Steenson, who shot to local fame two years ago for mailing a crude pipebomb to Mayor Keith Carton's electoral office, told The Advocate this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Nationals MP George Christensen has lashed out across the party room this afternoon, branding his colleagues who don't have a set of truck nuts dangling from their car 'latte inner-city Liberals'. The extraordinary attack comes after nobody else in his party seems to understand that the Member for Dawson was elected on a strong pro-truck...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Member for New England, Barnabus Decimus Meridius Joyce, has effectively ended the internal coal war plaguing The Nationals in recent weeks amid news that an online petition is calling for him to do so. The dogmatic Aries spoke briefly to journalists as he enjoyed a Golden Gaytime out the front of a Yamba newsagency,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Why the hell do we need to pay someone to get married in a shed?" "I've got like ten of them out on the farm we could use! It just boggles the mind. No wonder young people don't have any money." It makes sense - but Mark Donald just doesn't get it. What 'it' is, he'll probably...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though he means well, a door-knocking campaigner from the Channel Country Chamber Of Commerce Party (CCCCP) has been assured one local man will put them last at the upcoming local government elections this month after interrupting the man's dinner. French Quarter resident, Spencer Reedy, a devotee to the CCCCP since before it became a...