In 1893 he moved The Sun office to an alley off Little Bourke Street,[4] hired Miss May Manning as sub-editor and gave it a new subtitle "The society courier" and a new look.
[6] In 1894 Parker and Edward Sass wrote, for a Theatre Royal charity fundraiser, a comedietta, Emancipated, which was well received.
[7] The Advocate of Melbourne, and Freeman's Journal of Sydney, Roman Catholic weeklies, had little positive to say about Parker: he had no intelligence, they said, only the ability to exploit that possessed by others; that he adopted "Critchley" to mask his plebeian origins; he employed Oliphant to supply the wit for his own "false, offensive and bigoted" anti-Catholic invective.
Both father and son were sympathetic to the problems encountered by Jews, made manifest by Germany during World War II, and supported the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Australia.
travelled to Port Davey with the express purpose of surveying the site for a settlement, but the weather was against him and he died in his tent, "surrounded by plans and notes for the new Jewish homeland".