The Nation

19 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rubbing his hands over his wearing brow, national cricket coach Darren Lehmann is currently pulling any hair he can find. As the Pakistanis edge closer and closer to a historic victory, the 46-year-old is beginning to feel the pinch and pressure that a loss such as this can and will bring to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent study by the CSIRO has found that when chickpeas, wheat, barley and canola are doing well, farmers in North-West NSW are complaining a little less about their tortured existence on the land. Speaking from his completely manicured chick pea farm in the black soiled Liverpool Plains, local cocky Chester Windsor-Hillan (55) says that the successful 2016 harvest...

17 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Making funny faces to himself in the mirror, Glen Turner took in the spaciousness of the disable toilet and smiled. Breathing deeply as he emptied himself on the wall beside the toilet, the 28-year-old office something had never felt as free. "That's the service and respect I like to give my most...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Waking to the sound of rain pitter-pattering on his tin roof this morning, Sydney buyer's agent Cameron Coorey slowly built up enough saliva to unstick his tongue from the roof of his mouth. Last night he'd been dragged along to his fiance's Christmas Party at a prominent city nightspot, where he had to make small...

15 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In prison, dinner is always a big thing. Some inmates need to keep one eye over their shoulder. Each meal could be their last. That's for the average schmuck, not wiseguys like former NSW state politician Eddie Obeid, who was jailed this afternoon for a minimum of three years for misconduct...

15 December, 2016. 11:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In an adventure that could've been penned by the Immortal Bard himself, three latchkey 20-somethings threw caution to the wind earlier this week and set off on a quest to find A Midsummer Night's Bag. After first meeting at their local gastropub in the hot afternoon often enjoyed in December, the trio...

13 December, 2016. 17:43 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Shaun MacDougall is often the target of bullies at his West Dubbo high school. Not because he looks different to anybody else. He maintains a decent level of fitness and generally keeps to himself, going about his business without hurting anybody. But still, each day the bullies come for him. The 15-year-old Minore...

13 December, 2016. 17:43 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER HAVING HIS breath stole time and time again by the Fast & Furious franchise, one V8 Supercar fan has been quick to defend his favourite 'film series' when other members of society label them 'movies'. "They're not movies, they're films. They offer so much more than say, Home Alone or Schindler's...

13 December, 2016. 17:43 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SPEAKING TO THE ADVOCATE via satellite phone, retired traveller Michael Hoskins told our reporters that the endless monotony of the Nullarbor Plain is slowly killing him and wasting sweet little time he has left on the planet - but that pales in comparison to what was on offer in Adelaide. Over the weekend,...

Brisbane-based stay-at-home-mother-of-one, Rachel Irving-Valentine has indicated that the constant barrage of lunches heading into the silly season is also having a big effect on the nations full-time-mummies, not just their husbands who are coming home with a skinful  after their end of year office drinks. Speaking to the Betoota ahead of a long lunch at home with the girls, she said...