The Nation

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...

16 May, 2017. 16:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A seemingly healthy, but run down young profession has had his world turned upside down this afternoon after he entered his lingering symptoms into Bing. Clicking on the first link presented to him, Colin Potman landed on WebMD, a popular medical diagnosis website, where he was delivered the tragic news that he...

16 May, 2017. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A detailed report into smart people running their smart mouths in licensed venues across Australia has revealed that blokes such as the ponytailed jerk from the Good Will Hunting bar scene would've simply been force-fed a schooner glass instead of being comprehensively destroyed academically. The Royal Society of Hoteliers released the study...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Returning for its ninth season, the early episodes on Channel 9's The Voice are known for their euphoric highs and tragic lows, as well a rare insight into the trials and tribulations of their contestants. In last night's episode, one particularly heartbreaking moment reduced all four judges to tears. 43-year-old aspiring rock singer, Will Kennedy arrived to his audition with a tragic story...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A privileged trust fund kid who was lucky enough to enter Australia’s property market before the overseas-investment-fueled capital city property boom says his generation needs to stop buying $4 coffees and travelling if they want to own a home. Tim Gurner (35) - the grandson of a man wealthy enough to leave him close to $40,000 - twenty years...