The Nation

21 September, 2016 17:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The publican of the Betoota's Diamantina Hotel, Keith Goddard says when a local councillor mentioned the idea of introducing pub lock-out laws to the main street of town, he nearly dragged the "suit-wearing politician" out the front of the C.W.A hall and flogged him in the street. Luckily he didn't do that, because it would...

21 September, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ONE HIS FIRST DAY producing a drive slot radio show, Arthur Collator decided to wear a waistcoat. It was a mistake he wouldn't make again. "This ex-footballer, I can't remember his name, just laughed at me and slapped me on the back," said the 26-year-old communications graduate. "He said, 'Mate, take that fucking...

20 September, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GOING AGAINST THE ONE WAY traffic down the Pacific Highway, Dan Caruthers arrived in Brisbane the day before ANZAC Day 2011. Taking a new job with Hutchinson Builders, he was quick to get himself a pair of skinny-leg moleskin trousers and some elastic-sided boots - just so he'd fit in with his new surroundings. But...

20 September, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A MAD DASH to find guests for next week's Q&A programme, a producer from the ABC's frontline panel show has turned to google in order to learn which celebrities have a book coming out soon. Following the success of last night's broadcast, junior producer Ally Thickrimme spent this morning trawling the internet...

20 September, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton have used a United Nations summit to encourage world leaders to look to Australia's strict border control policies as a way to get elected. The pair defended Australia's controversial immigration policy at an unprecedented United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, aimed at finding a better international...

19 September, 2016. 10:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE NATION HAS BEEN forced to pick up the pieces today after Mad Monday celebrations in regional Victoria failed to net a single instance of blackface over the weekend, breaking with an age old tradition. Attending post-season celebrations painted head-to-toe in jet black paint has been an institution in the picturesque brothel...

18 September, 2016. 10:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THOUGH HE'S NOT AS GOOD as he once was, Kenny Carpmann could sell a denim jacket to a recalcitrant teenage girl while he sold a pair of sunnies to a blind man. But the star salesman was fired on the spot yesterday from his position at Chermside General Pants after he plugged the AUX...

15 September, 2016. 10:15  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor| CONTACT The Royal Australian Mint announced this morning that it will be releasing a limited edition 50c coin in the New Year that will feature one of Australia’s greatest sportsmen of all time, the Emperor Of Lang Park, Wally 'The King' Lewis The announcement comes after an intense campaign was run to pressure the Mint...

16 September, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A LOCAL FATHER OF FOUR feels that he can finally stop abusing a powerful muscle-relaxant as Network Ten's runaway dating show The Bachelor, came to a controversial end last night in Bali. Valium, diazepam, benzos - whatever you call the magic little pills, they've kept 61-year-old Walter Greenshaw sane against insurmountable odds. As a doting...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ARMED WITH THE GUMMIEST SMILE in New Farm and an economics degree from a sandstone university, Gavin Coolidge has the rest of his life charted out with professional and society milestones clearly plotted out ahead of him. Married prematurely last year at age 29, the credit solutions executive agrees that having a ring on the...