The Nation

28 Novemeber, 2016. 14:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact STARING OUT THE WINDOW of her boutique florist shop on Hunter Street in Sydney's Central Business District, Amy Dalhassie finds it hard to remember the good times. Especially now when the rent is beginning to fall behind, almost three months now. Just this morning, one of her creditors at Flemington said he...

28 Novemeber, 2016. 14:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NOT SINCE COLDPLAY LAST came to these shores has there been a larger collection of white middle-class Australians in one spot. Over the weekend, Kiwi band Crowded House brought the house down on the Opera House steps, to the chagrin of the nearby residents. Playing their famous brand of family-friend-FM-radio-easy-rock, brothers Neil and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local Toowoomba man, Greg Grant (28) has been given good reason to celebrate his family's Irish ancestry today. After finally deciding to saddle in and watch some YouTube highlights of the mixed-martial arts superstar Conor McGregor, Greg says the legacy of the world's biggest UFC star really gets his Irish blood pumping. "Have you seen this bloke" he says...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she has mixed feelings about coral bleaching, after taking her senators to a healthy part of the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to disprove claims the icon is dying. "What is so wrong with being white?" she asked. "I will not be made to feel guilty for being white, or having white kids,...

26 November, 2016. 13:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN-FORM AUSTRALIAN BATSMAN Usman Khawaja has broken his silence on his record knock yesterday, saying he was seeing the ball like they were on an OLED television. Having a bit of a dig at David Warner, who took some time out of his hectic pre-season schedule to endorse the LG product, the 29-year-old...

26 November, 2016. 13:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CONSIDERED A RITE OF passage for many first-time overseas tourists, London often serves as the first stop for many young Australians as they leap from lily pad to European lily pad. But for one Batlow fruit picker, the city itself had captured his intrigue. Milo 'Sparky' Scoles knows his way around an apple...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT For the first time in many years, majority of Australia's married men and women will go to bed unbelievably content tonight, it has been confirmed With the return of Gilmore Girls tonight, the series that captured the hearts and minds of women across the globe over ten years ago, Australia’s male population has been willingly granted free passes...

24 November, 2016. 11:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THOUGH HE INVITED most of his Senate colleagues to the mid-afternoon function, Malcolm Roberts went ahead with his scheduled book burning in the Woolworths Dickson carpark despite only two others turning up. With a number of small boxes of pro-climate change and global warming literature, the senator quickly made short work of the...

24 November, 2016. 11:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HE KNEW THE MEME WAS dead when he started seeing them on Facebook, but it was long buried on his favourite 'alt-right' imageboards when the white girls at work begun talking about him. Wishing he'd listened more in school so he wouldn't have to work in media buying, Brett Gloveman says that going...

23 November, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SPORTING A CLASSIC GREG Chappell cricket hat and a briefcase full of dreams, former politician turned besieged company director Clive Palmer arrived today in the Kingdom of Thailand on a quest to find that island from 2000's The Beach. While many official guidebooks suggest that Ko Phi Phi Leh is the island setting...