The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "No, I didn't buy these sausages from the butcher, I bought them from Woolworths," he said. "It's such a bother to do your shop, then go to the butcher and then the green grocer! I'm sorry, I know I should support small business but I was in a rush!" There's a lot of guilt playing on the mind of Gary...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Leon Braithwaite has confirmed today that he is on a pretty good wicket. The 32-year-old father of two and NBN Field Technician spoke to us from his couch earlier today. Enjoying another ‘Flexi Friday,’ Braithwaite admitted that life isn’t too bad. Braithwaite explained that like council employee’s, people in the public sector and anyone lucky enough to...

LOUIS BURKE | CAREER | CONTACT An online chat between workmates has come to an unlikely end as a gif that was only vaguely related to the conversation was used in a subtle way to suggest the conversation is over. The chat between two colleagues Teniel Wright (32) and Matt Reid (46) took place over Facebook messenger and began when Reid sent Wright a link for a video she...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Australian Professor Akshay Venkatesh has today been awarded the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics." Awarded once every four years to between two and four people under the age of 40, the medal is an amazing achievement for the 36-year-old, who was described as a "prodigy" and a "genius" during his teenage years in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Coles has backflipped on their policy to hand out reusable shopping bags indefinitely this morning. The news comes after the backlash the supermarket giant received for not banning single-use plastic bags in the first place was outweighed by the backlash received from Australians not ready to make the change to reusable shopping bags. However, that second wave of backlash...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact After roughing out 18-months of celibacy in what his mates describe as the most brutal droughts they've ever seen, local roofer Andy Girder (23) is looking like he might be back in the game. Friends say they don't know what it is that caused Andy's brutal dry patch, but ever since he came back from a big 3-month surfing...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact David "Capillary Clinton has never minded a beer. As a semi-retired fitter and turner, the 64-year-old father of 3 doesn’t drink as much as he used to, but he certainly still drinks as consistently. And after a lifetime of giving it a nudge, Roach has the nose and cheeks to prove it. The Betoota Groves local confirmed that while he does...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local boy, Ryan Madden has been called a lot of things in his 26 years of awkward social gaffes and dislocated shoulders. He's about twenty kilos overweight and hasn't kissed a girl with tongue in three years. He's never travelled overseas, except for six trips to Bali with his mates over the space of six years. His parents literally had to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A local Thai restaurant has caused a stir today. The venue angered patrons for deciding to play pop song originals, rather than the random acoustic versions so common in South East Asian eating houses. The popular eating spot in the CBD was criticised by numerous locals for straying away from the tried and trusted formula. Rather than play the slow,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A meme on social media today has today proven what many across the country already knew to be true. The meme, now shared over 5,000 times on Facebook, and riddled with grammatical errors, has proven that the countries Foreign Aid contribution is directly responsible for the plight of farmers. The piece of content has blown coverage...