The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The current trend of inner-city creatives and university hipsters tucking in plain t-shirts to their cotton tracksuit pants, paired with work boots, has resulted in a lot of confusion for ex-cons roaming around our nation’s cities, it has been confirmed. The new fashion, which is reminiscent of old blokes just released from Long Bay or Pentridge Gaol in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact As voters in five seats across the country are being forced back to the polls, our next four years of federal government could be determined in the next few weeks. Four of these by-elections prompted by the dual citizenship fiasco, namely the re-contesting Longman Labor MP Susan Lamb. Who will be the first cab off the rank in this weekend's...

LOUIS BURKE | Editor | Contact Four months on from the scandal that rocked Australian sport, local bloke Arnie Dale (26) has learnt it is still too early to talk to his dad Hugh Dale (58) about the cricket ball-tampering scandal. After witnessing his father experience the five stages of grief in March, Arnie thought enough time had past to make light of the fact...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Data released by Woolworths self service checkouts has been released today, revealing that 90% of all items weighed in from the produce section are in fact unwashed potatoes.   The findings have forced dietary researchers to reevaluate how much starch is being consumed by Australians on a weekly basis.   “It’s quite amazing how peoples diets have changed since the self service...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. Although hippies also gathered in many other places in the U.S., Canada and Europe, San Francisco was at that time...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Central-Coast Queensland Folk-Rock Editor | CONTACT A man who arrived home in an almost-new, second-hand Nissan Cube this week has quickly realised that his new purchase has cost him his ability to successfully hang shit on anyone in his life.   Clarke Michaels, from Betoota’s trendy Bonsoy Belt, pulled into his driveway as neighbours from all directions came running to their windows, pointing...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Social Nuances | CONTACT Jai Mason, a smoking hot sport star with everything going for him, has today made an unfortunate statement that has his female admirers seething. The popular Betoota Dolphins rugby league player brought himself undone during a post-match interview, where he attributed his best on ground performance to the man upstairs. “Full credit to the boys, but yeah there’s one...

Growing up in the most exclusive cul de sac of Betoota Grove, Atticus Preston was a selfish prick whose favourite pastime was schadenfreude. He had coasted through elite education before taking his entitled attitude to the skies as a pilot with the national carrier. Once there, he made little effort to hide his disdain for passengers and regularly treated them...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Central-Coast Queensland Folk-Rock & Cars Editor | Contact A resident from Betoota’s Fligh Path District seems no closer to heading to the tyre shop after entering a 3rd week driving around town on his cars space saver.   Beau Jane, 28, wound up with the spare on his trustywhip, after hitting a traffic island on his way out of the Dan...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact After ticket sales to The Wu-Tang Clan's one-off Sydney Opera House show evaporated in just minutes yesterday, Australians of all walks are left wondering about the type of people capable of paying nearly a thousand dollars to watch a 40-minute rap spectacular in the Concert Hall. With the news that the now infamous American alt-right pharmaceutical...