The Nation

31 October, 2016. 18:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TROY CAMBERWELL HASN'T HAD A cheeky Tuesday buzz on since last year's Melbourne Cup, when on the following Thursday, he was forced to resign from his marketing managerial position at a mid-level boutique agency in a light-industrial-zoned suburb of South Sydney. Not because he got a bit too pissed and gave a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contacts POLICE AND AMBULANCE CREWS WERE called to a prominent Sydney 'nite spot' at approximately 7pm last night local time as a canine drug detection team entered the premises. Panic gripped the revellers and the crowd began rushing for the nearest exit, which led to eight patrons being crushed in the ensuing stampede for the door. Six...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TEN YEARS AGO, people stood around awestruck whenever Nathan Delaney would pop the top off a beer with his teeth, now his mates actively try to stop him. They offer him a bottle opener, a lighter or even offer to open the thing for him. But the 28-year-old maddog always refuses. "Nah watch this, I'm a...

26 October, 2016. 23:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AUSTRALIAN BILLIONAIRE JAMES PACKER has broken his silence on his recent unconfirmed split from pop star Mariah Carey, saying what many armchair commentators have been saying since day dot. "Nah, but yeah, mate. Mad as a cut snake, if you can believe that," explained the 49-year-old. "A few mates pulled me aside...

27 October 2016. 11:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Almost 200 years since the earliest recorded reports of gold in Ballarat, it seems the town and its residents haven't changed that much. Gold was first discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, and by the 1850s regional Victoria and New South Wales played host to the biggest population growth colonial history. This phenomenon appears to be...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TAKING A MID-AFTERNOON BREAK from doing nothing, local 'art director' Gavin Coolidge took the time out of his day to renew his subscription to GQ magazine - or as he puts it, his life bible. Full of interesting style suggestions, enchanting tales of life and luxury as well as helpful hints on how to turn...

26 October, 2016. 23:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER RECEIVING AN EMAIL from the Australian Taxation Office explaining that he only a few days left to lodge his 2015-16 tax return, a 32-year-old marginally employed bag-of-shit decided to get to work. Taking several liberties with his uniform, car and donation declarations, Sam Klimt sat smiling as he completed his e-tax...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT WAS 1968 AND OUR boys were trudging through the jungles of South East Asia, looking to shoot themselves a couple Charlies. The Easybeats were climbing their way up the charts and the controlling Protestant class still had their healthy scepticism of the Roman Catholics serfs - a time before the horrors of true multiculturalism...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE NOT HAVING ENOUGH grunt to pull the skin off a rice pudding, a north Betootan townie stands by his beloved Proton Jumbuck, saying that it deserves to be called a ute. Stephen Francis has been openly mocked by friends and family since purchasing the Malaysian billy cart in 2014, but he hit back at his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews MP, has had to remind the residents of his state that, while it may seem funny and well-intentioned, blackface is still very offensive - even during Mad Monday. "I understand a lot of Australians are certain that it is fine, but I have been informed by actually black people that Blackface is still very...