The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT While the Captain's Parrot brewery's staple beer, the Hungry Leper, is considered more of a saison ale, many craft beer enthusiasts say that it's relatively mid-strength alcohol percentage suggests it could also be considered a fruitier pale ale. The hibiscus infused Northern French style Saison served through a tangerine filled randall is wildly popular throughout Australia, or at least several...

11 January, 2017. 12:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Lynx Orwell got in touch with a producer from A Current Affair late last year to put the spotlight on one of his neighbours and the potty-mouth parrot terrorising his small beach community. Just an hour ago, the 27-year-old out-of-work dodgem car attendant got his lifelong wish - a phone call from Tracy...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A 10-year-old granddaughter has today learnt that the model of screen entertainment that her parents grew up with is almost unwatchable by her Generation Z standards. Kisha Farleigh, says she can't believe the amount of advertisements that Channel 7 has managed to squeeze into the 160 minute animated film she started watching at 2pm on her nan's extremely outdated...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT "Of course I'm not going to be able to pay it back" Maddie Wilson spits to her mum over the phone from her 3x3 metre college dorm room. "That's the point of welfare. It's for people who don't have any options!" As a recipient of the Australian Government's Youth Allowance, Maddie is restricted in how many hours she can work...

9 January, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A prominent Chardonnay socialist is being consoled by close pals this afternoon after former prime minister Paul Keating reportedly failed to recognise him in a Fitzroy cafe. Charlie Pickering, the host of the popular ABC programme The Weekly With Charlie Pickering, retreated to his Collingwood loft around 3pm local time with a number...

9 January, 2016. 11:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Settling into his seventh Crown Lager of the evening, Ascot father-of-four Glenn Coalman flicks through his saved shows on his MyStar box to find his favourite episode of Andrew Bolt's Sky News programme. Chuckling to himself each time the conservative points out the hypocrisy of the left, the 66-year-old sat bolt upright on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Dennis Gooch-Stroker is sanguine about the Sunday afternoon binge-drinking-session he's about to have. Not because he's concerned about under-performing at work on Monday. Not because he really should be doing something more constructive at his age - but because he's about to turn up at the boys' house with two boxes of throwdowns. It's not the first...

ESSIE BURKE | Chick Editor | CONTACT He has been belching out half-baked opinions over the Betoota airwaves for half a century but iconic broadcaster Barry "Fatso" Harrigan has rarely left his loyal audience of deadbeats stunned. On Friday Harrigan, 67, did just that when he offered an opinion that appeared to have a factual basis. Long-time listener and tenth generation Betootanese Shirl Thorne...

7 January, 2017. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Gregory Poon is the type of discerning Brisbanese man who locks the doors of his late model Volkswagon every time he's forced to journey further south than Mount Gravatt. Speaking to friends earlier this morning over a platter of Balmain bugs and jumbo king prawns, the St Lucia property developer laughed and...

6 January, 2017. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A single vehicle accident west of Yamba has closed the Pacific Highway in both directions as emergency crews work to pick up thousands of AA batteries. The Tesla Model S P85 collided with the median barrier just after tea local time, with the front battery pack rupturing, spilling the batteries across both...