The Nation

12 October, 2015. 17:05 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JOINING THE ARMED forces is often overlooked by many high school leavers - not because of the taxing lifestyle and hard work, but because young people are under the misconception that our men and women in uniformed don't earn very much, according to a recent report. However, nothing could be further from...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact According to Roy Morgan Research, nearly 90% of female Instagram users with followings that exceed 1000 people, identify themselves as "entrepreneurs". Roy Morgan group account director Bryan Clydesdale says that hot chicks on Instagram very seldom refer to themselves as simply hot chicks. "Bikini Model / Entrepreneur / Fitness Model / Blogger" "It's definitely a new space they are...

12 October, 2015. 7:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE HAVING BOTH ears pierced over the weekend, a three-month old baby failed to turn heads this morning as she accompanied her mother down to their local skate park. Debuting her child's new accessories at the area's cultural hub, Kandise Honner says her daughter is growing up right before her eyes. She...

11 October, 2015. 17:15 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE FIRST ALL-FEAMLE team to enter the Bathurst 1000 since 1998 has proven that when it comes to writing-off multi-million-dollar race cars, men are far better at it than women. Race fans from all over the country were let down by the female efforts, saying they didn't come all this way...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Castle Hotel has stood in the same spot since 1880. It's inner-city location serves a diverse group of patrons in a district that has seen many different waves of economic classes and demographics. One of the pubs occasional patrons, a 29-year-old Betoota artist by the name of Urshela, says that he and his friends are so lucky...

7 October, 2015. 16:20 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A week after their blockbuster debut with Streets Of Sydney Episode 1: The Shire, The team at More Chilli's Productions are again receiving praise for their second installment of the long-awaited online documentary series. In less than half an hour, Episode 2 was viewed close to 16 million people, after it was shared...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local atheist Brad Pincombe has had enough of what he has dubbed ‘activist Christians’ for saying ‘bless you’ every time he sneezes. Mr Pincombe, who suffers from occasional asthma attacks, says springtime is particularly bad for him with pollen in the air. "I sneeze quite a bit at this time of the year. But that's my business... I...

5 October, 2015. 14:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact Once a rugby league heartland, the gentrified inner-west of Sydney city is currently playing host to scores of Queenslanders who aren't too different to the district's original inhabitants. In town for last night's epic all-Queensland NRL Grand Final, between the North Queensland Cowboys and The Brisbane Broncos, the uncouth northern visitors don't seem to...

3 October, 2015. 8:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CLIVE PALMER HAS become only the fourth Member of Parliament to climb Mount Kosciuszko while in office. Doing it for charity, Mr Palmer said it was easy to make time. However, rather than don the snow boots or hiking shoes, the 61-year-old opted to ascend the nation's highest peak in his late...

4 October, 2015. 10:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact The AFL's Grand Final is here and what a divide we have. The heavily-tattooed West Coast Eagles fans attempting to out-cheer the culturally elite Hawthorn Hawks fans. After driving across the Nullabor to Melbourne in one 42-hour-stint, Perth construction development officer, Adam Bond says he wishes he had spent more time staring into the sun...