The Nation

2 June, 2017. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A retrenched Brisbane Times reporter spoke to The Advocate this morning about losing his job and what impact it had on his life. "It could've been worse. I got offered a job at the Daily Mail down in Sydney," said the journalist, who asked to remain anonymous. "But instead, I chose to just...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Dad is now at that age where trivial things such as fence lines, garden aesthetics and airspace above fence lines take up almost 80% of his life. After years of going to war with the local council while he was renovating, dad is now content with his castle and has turned his laser onto the next-door neighbour, a...

1 June, 2017. 13:34 ELLIAS AL ANWAR | South East Asia | Contact "Almost anything could happen. But that's why I fly with Malaysian because it's never boring," said Matthew Greenholm as he sat waiting for his connecting flight to Frankfurt in Kuala Lumpur. The 29-year-old Global Studies student explained to The Advocate this morning that in light of recent events surrounding...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Sydney Real Estate agent, Joseph Huntington-Whitely (31), is ecstatic at his newfound sense of camaraderie and interest in working football. But he's not the only one. The NSW Blues out-of-character performance and subsequent defeat over the Queensland Maroons in last night's State Of Origin opener has today resulted in thousands upon thousands of Sydney-based working professionals arriving at work...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The current trend of inner-city creatives and university hipsters tucking in plain t-shirts to their stretch jeans, paired with Blundstone 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...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Music Editor | CONTACT It's been confirmed today that the guy who likes making drum sounds on his acoustic guitar, usually through a magical loop machine at his feet, is definitely from the Sunshine Coast town of Caloundra. Bodhi Utah, 25, was under strong suspicion of being from the coastal haven north of Brisbane, which is a breeding ground for so-called 'happy-tappers'. Driving...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Schapelle Corby has posted a video of herself and her family watching live media coverage of her return to Australia - showing her face for the first time since her arrival, after successfully evading media since her landing in Australia The Instagram video shows the convicted drug smuggler standing in a mystery bedroom with a group of people...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Google processes trillions of search requests each year, and on today the San Fran Cisco-based company revealed which terms dominated its search engine since in Australia over the last fornight. Many of the phrases, unsurprisingly, reflect national events, news topics and other phenomena that rose to prominence throughout the news cycle. The top trending search term is "Origin...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Sydney Writer's Festival have today apologised to residents of the harbour city for the lack of light and air in the city's CBD The annual left-wing echo chamber festival has taken over the city, partly because of the giant soap box they have erected in the middle of The Rocks and Darling Harbour. "We understand that this event...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A bloke who has spent just about every cent he made as a fly-in-fly-out mining labourer between 2010-2014 says the mining tax ruined our economy by discouraging international corporations from investing in full-scale resource extraction projects. "What was the point of it?" roars 32-year-old Micky Kelp. "What, so we could keep a bit for our government?" "Like they fucking deserve it" The...