The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Donation charities from around Australia have today criticised Japanese 'tidying' expert Marie Kondo for the increase in useless shit being dumped in front of their clothing bins. Kondo has written four books on organizing, which have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. In particular, her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A suburban father of two popular teenage daughters has today been rattled to his core, after watching youtube a certain video and learning the exact lyrics of Bronx-based hip hop artist 'Cardi B' and Houston raised Megan Thee Stallion. Keiran, a loving family man had only heard passing comments about the iconic American rap superstars over the last...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-larges | Contact Children's healthy living advocate Healthy Harold has announced that he's prepared to test illicit drugs on himself instead of letting the kids of Australia, that he loves and adores, test them on themselves. The polite giraffe reached 300,000 Australian children in 2014 by visiting schools and giving lectures about the dangers of drug and alcohol...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Scientists from Australia's peak scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), have discovered a link this afternoon between winning tennis matches and being a humble polite young man who is good to those who've given so much to see them succeed. It's unclear what prompted the CSIRO to release the findings of...

The sight of more than a million fish floating belly up on the Darling River at Menindee has left the nation in a state of distress this week, as doubt is cast over the mismanagement of the Murray-Darling Basin. Locals say irrigators are taking too much water from the system, and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has mismanaged water flows so...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just as Marty Dalrymple rounded the bend into McAlister Street in the Old City District, he was delighted to see a parking spot right out the front of his favourite lunch spot. "Fuck yeah," he said quietly to himself. But after nailing the park in one go, paying an extortionate amount of currency in the meter,...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Long-running weeknight drama Indoors, Outdoors has made a bold decision to spice things up a bit with an ambiguous car crash at the tail end of the show’s 39th season. Described as the most loved show amongst people who complain the most about call centre operators who don’t speak English, Indoors, Outdoors has provided nightly entertainment to millions...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A series of controversial videos leaked to social media have rocked the sporting world this week, as Australian football fans learn that their favourite players would also be good company on a big night. The videos, which range from half dressed idiots tackling each other and talking shit, to shadowboxing and drunken dancing, have all but confirmed that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Oooooft," he said. "See what happened with Brexit this morning? It'l be hard to come back from this, I reckon." Nobody who Colin Brettson, an account director at Clemenger South Betoota, asked that question to actually heard it. Because he finds it appropriate to say 'oooft' out loud. As the CSIRO pointed out earlier this month, the people...

A grandmotherly coworker at the front desk has today hinted to the fact that she's at that age where these kind of heatwaves can really knock her around. This comes as a handful of Australian centres have have broken their highest ever January temperature records, including Broken Hill, which reached 45.4C and Albury which reached 44.4C. While this has proven to...