The Nation

12 December, 2016. 15:33 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GAVIN TURNER WAS ON a plane to New Zealand last week when an air hostess asked if there was a doctor on the plane. He confidently rose his hand, considering he'd just graduated from university earlier this year. Despite his experience, the 24-year-old knew he had to step up to the plate. He...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Forget Flying Fish Restaurant or Doltone House Wharf, Noodle King ChinaTown will be the scene for this year’s Sydney Morning Herald’s Christmas party extravaganza. In a sad day for the crumbling newspaper giant, the venue with the “Best noodle in Sydney,” was just about it for the rapidly declining team of journos, photographers and sub editors at the...

11 December, 2016. 14:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact QUICK TO SQUINT AND rub his eyes whenever his children come to him with his problems, Steven Collie wonders how his adult children will ever be able to survive on their own. Speaking to The Advocate from his waterfront St Lucia compound on Brisbane's Lower West Side, the 69-year-old retired property developer...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The entire newsroom at pedestrian.tv are today wrapping up a big December, by drinking left over cases of alcohol that were given to them by the struggling brands that are interested in winning over their accessible but unengaged audience. "Our audience is 16 to 35, affluent, influential and hungry for new information and experiences. We have over 200,000...

8 December, 2016. 19:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER STARING BLANKLY OUT the window for a number of years after he retired, Graham Cool-Ridge wondered what he'd fill his days with now he's got nothing do. He tried golf and bridge. Just last year, he found some of his son's marijuana hidden in his sock draw, so he rolled up a sticky...

7 December, 2016. 19:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE LATEST COOKBOOK by British chef Nigella Lawson has whipped up fresh controversy this afternoon after it was revealed by the publisher that it features a recipe for hash brownies that's taken Gen Y by storm. Dubiously telling readers that they're 'only allowed to make the brownies where cannabis is legal,' many directionless, sheltered teens...

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...