The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Chris Bowen, a person is currently the Shadow Treasurer of Australia at the moment, has accepted responsibility for the crushing recession this nation will enjoy from June this year. Speaking to journalists this afternoon outside his electoral offices in Sydney's wild midwest, Bowen said he's putting his hand up and preparing himself to cop it...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The New South Wales government has backed calls for the once iconic nightlife strip Kings Cross to instead be referred to as "Cowards Cross. It comes after nearby baby boomer residents released a statement expressing gratitude for the support of doctors, police and the general public for their help in dealing with the youth that frequent the area. "The term...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A senior editorial staff member at The Betoota Bugle has revealed to The Advocate this week that even they are surprised with how quickly Fairfax Media has gone down the shitter in the wake of their merger with Nine Entertainment Co. The online-only Bugle was founded in 2009 in an ill-fated attempt to muscle in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Bradbury Shorten has hit the road this week, travelling to regional centres around the country to spruik his party's rural policies. The polite Taurus pulled into the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve, near Dubbo in County Coulton, this morning to speak with concerned cotton growers who feel threatened by his party and their penchant...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Dylan Spokemen, by his own admission, is having a Tuesday from hell. "I got a parking ticket this morning, I even caught the guy. He just looked me in the eye, smiled, then pushed enter on his little computer of misery." The 28-year-old solicitor was yelled at by his supervising partner as soon as he arrived...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In an effort to escape the oppressing night-time heat last weekend down in our nation's inhospitable south, a lost boy of New South Boomerstan became separated from his mates at a Melbourne pub - forcing him to seek refuge within the air-conditioned bosom of the hotel's pokie den. But after completing a number of laps...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Government's signature energy policy includes large swathes of funding for both renewable and non-renewable energy generation. Despite telling the nation for years that sustainable and renewable energy is simply a socialist pipe dream, billions have been earmarked for the Snowy Mountains Scheme as well as the coal mining and energy industries. To make sense of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The President Of Australia has formally asked the Opposition Leader if he'd like to be his deputy - saying his faith in the Liberal Party is now completely gone. Bradbury Shorten spoke to journalists this morning after flogging himself up and down the wet sand at St Kilda beach. He detailed the surprise phone call he...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With twenty days until the New South Wales state election, voters who aren't interested in seeing the O'Farrell, Baird, Berejiklian government continue for a full decade are beginning to worry that the other bloke might not really have what it takes. The NSW Labor leader, who is definitely not a household name, and who's most recent headline came after he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just weeks after Scott Morrison took time out of his busy schedule to officially recognise Juan Guaido as the legitimate winner of the recent Venezuelan elections, his South American counterpart has done the same. This afternoon local time, Juan Guaido phoned Scott Morrison to praise our nation's strong and stable government - despite a number...