The Nation

7 December, 2016. 19:34 INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact AS OPPOSED TO BUYING an older fuel efficient car, local nature boy Oculus Ponsford has taken a leaf out of his favourite film iRobot and put a down payment on his own driverless electric car. After clicking confirm on the car maker's website, the 58-year-old semi-retired creative consultant/art director rocked back in his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A photo of two Townsville kids playing with a high powered Adler A110 has reignited debates surrounding the classification of the controversial rifle. The two children in the photo, named Bryce (9) and Dugald Wardlaw (10) are the sons of a prominent farmer in the North Queensland area. The picture was taken over the weekend during a family hunting...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE SMALL NEW SOUTH WALES town of Forbes has released its annual Rich List this morning, featuring a few new surprise names as well as a number of main stayers. The Forbes Rich List is an annual ranking of the town's wealthiest people, compiled and published by The Forbes Advocate newspaper every December. The total net worth of...

6 December, 2016. 19:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A WEEKEND BLUE LIGHT DISCO at a North Brisbane Police and Citizens Youth Club descended into disaster as the local boys and girls took just over three hours until they began to mingle among themselves. For the first one-hundred-and-eighty minutes of the social gathering, neither party was willing to cast their...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Tens of thousands of Western Sydney residents have today arrived at the New South Wales Central Coast, in the first wave of Christmas pilgrims. The epicentre of this mass, temporary exodus is none other than the home of 'water-based-westies' known as The Entrance. Local lifesaver, Joel Coastie, says from here on out it is hell for fucking leather. "We can expect an...

6 December, 2016. 19:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A WINDORAH MAN ON a Buck's Weekend in Sydney was arrested by police overnight after he tried to order five bourbon and cokes in one order. Plain-clothed detectives from the Kings Cross LAC detained the man when bar staff alerted the authorities that a 'happy-go-lucky-desert-man' was about to do some serious drinking, which has...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE BEING OLD ENOUGH to make his own decisions regarding bedtime, 27-year-old grader driver David Pott-Plant chooses to reject this bourgeois social construct and let a man in a possum costume tell him when to go to sleep. The Parkes Shire Council employee, who is physically unable to breathe through his nose due to a tragic...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A spokesman from one of the country's largest hospitality groups has today confirmed that the term 'VIP lounge' is just an Australian term for 'a dark air conditioned room with over twenty pokie machines that you are sometimes allowed to smoke in'. A recent study conducted by the Licensing Inquiries and Testing For Australian Management (LitFam) ombudsman shows that tourists...

1 December, 2016. 9:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHETHER IT BE HIS quiet rugby league sensibilities, or his happy-go-lucky-big-small-town attitude, Brisbane man Brett Teaman says he just can't wrap his head around nasal and other facial piercings. Arriving in Melbourne, the home of entertainer Molly 'The Hat' Meldrum, on business this morning, the 29-year-old Hutchinson Builders project manager said that nearly every...

30 November, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE MAKERS OF THE timeless board game, Monopoly, have attracted 'scathing' and 'unbridled' criticisms for their latest release targeted at millennials. According to the modified rules, players under the age of 30 aren't allowed to purchase and own property - unless they're prepared to pay a high premium. The one item on the...