The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A stay-at-home graphic designer/full-time mummy currently renovating a divine pre-war terrace house in Betoota's West End says she's glad that her 18 month-old will be able to grow up in an area with tragic social issues. After being raised in the sterile suburbs of Betoota's Hills District, Christy Benard (35) apparently 'fell in love' with the edgier parts...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Federal Immigration Minister and former Brisbane copper, Peter Dutton is under fire today, after Illawarra locals called him out for 'plagiarising' his new has asylum seeker policy which would see refugees deported if they don't apply for a temporary protection visa by October. Local Wollongong ute-owner, Ryghleigh Hanson says the Dutton's policy is a little too similar to his bumper...

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22 May, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Senator for Queensland Malcolm Roberts has lived up to the claim formerly made by his state's number plates by proving that he's from "The Smart State" today by registering a 'gifted' score on a Facebook IQ Test. Clearly chuffed by having his intellect validated by a transglobal media conglomerate such as Facebook, Roberts...

21 May, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A report commissioned by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsmen has found that Australians were more appalled at the journalistic standards of the Nine Network's 60 Minutes programme than they were at purported drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury's past at a Western Sydney sex worker. Last night on the nation's peak investigative journalism outfit, reporters...

21 May, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Researchers from Australia's peak scientific body announced a breakthrough this morning during a media brunch in Brisbane. The CSIRO claim they have discovered a 23-year-old Yeppoon man named Graeme Ponsford - if true, the man will become the first recorded man under 25 to have that first name. "Typically, the only men named...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australians have been told that they don't have to pay tax this year if they don't want to - after it was revealed that the deputy commissioner of the ATO is entangled in a major fraud investigation involving $165 million was allegedly stolen from the Commonwealth. Michael Cranston, who has worked for the tax office for over three...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A year 10 student with access to the internet has been left without answers today, after quizzing his high school history teacher about why she hasn't felt the need to teach the class about several pivotal policies and incidents that played a large part in the birth of Australian society. Jordan Wylie (15) was shocked to learn that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The handsome, polite and superiorly talented Johnathan Thurston is the greatest person ever, a new study from Monash university has found. While state-influenced debates have raged over who is the greatest modern footballer, the third party research group based out of the rugby league Switzerland of Melbourne, Victoria has found that Johnathan Thurston shits over all Southern competitors...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After 6 months of living in Byron Bay, the daughter of a prominent Brisbane legal practitioner is now using Aboriginal terms of reference to describe her extended family. The 25-year-old Xavier Rudd enthusiast is not big on revealing too much about her privileged upbringing other than the fact that her family still live in the same place they...