The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THINKING HIS LIFE COULDN'T get any better after receiving as PS- grade in statistics this semester, one Cairns business student has had his socks blown off by adding imitation crab meat to his usual bowl of afternoon Mi Goreng. Moving exceptionally slower than he did in high school, Max Flaghouse said his body reflects the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS HAS long been an exclusive enclave, only accessible to those who can afford to take a week of work and blow a few bucks. For far too long, Australia's ski fields have been prohibitively expensive to Australia's hardest workers. Until now. Lesley Stratton breaks shit up and throws it in a skip six days a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact STOPPING SHORT OF TELLING Australians to reconsider their need to travel to the United States, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading has updated the Smarttraveller.gov.au to reflect the growing threat to human life and political stability in the United States. The update comes after the United States' own travel advisory website recommended earlier this...

12 June, 2016. 11:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN AN AGE WHERE flying is considered the safest method of transport, hundreds of people die every year from doing it. However, in the opinion of one semi-retired Brisbane landscaper, there's one airline that can almost guarantee that they won't fly you into a mountainside. Glenn Campbell agrees that when you fly with...

11 June, 2016. 18:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF THERE'S ANYTHING that every young person in the free world can agree on, it's that everything Coldplay has released since 2008 has been dog shit. Taking some time out of his busy long weekend, Greg Peacock flicked through a few old Facebook albums of him and the squad back at school. The...

11 June, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KEVIN GREENHOLM SAYS he should've walked out when his partner in crime started nearly sorting the chips by weight. That was when he was only $5000 in the hole. The 59-year-old semi-retired geologist admits he should've known better, saying that he hatched the plan to take his autistic childhood friend to Jupiter's Casino...

10 June, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FINDING A NEW WAY of disgracing and embarrassing himself each day, friendly area bartender Martin Shorthorn woke this morning to find no food in the fridge. Unphased, he confidently strode down to his local shopping strip in Brisbane's New Farm district, walking right past his local Greek-owned mixed business delicatessen, past three...

9 June, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact   SHARON GLEESON SITS IN her Caboolture kitchen, working her way through her fourth Horizon Blue of the morning while she polishes off a neenish tart. Her knuckles are bruised and her earlobes are covered up in bandaids. Nearing the end of her tasty lung candy, she lets out an earth-shattering cough and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Finding Dory, the highly anticipated 3D comedy adventure film and sequel to the 2003 classic Finding Nemo, last year gave Pixar the biggest opening in its history when it hit theatres on June 17. The directors cut of the film has been released today, showing the inclusion of a 'human character' who was since cut out due to injunctions put forward by mining companies....

6 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE HEARTS OF HIPSTERS and perverts around the world are filled with pangs of sadness this afternoon as Hillary Clinton officially won the Democratic nomination in California. Capitulating like a Bangladeshi cricket team, Bernie Sanders is refusing to give in until the very last moment - even though he's on track to...