By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald I know it. You know it. In recent times the great leap forward in contact sport in Australia has been taking the issue of concussion seriously. After years of embracing the culture whereby even after being knocked out, a real man plays on, and backs up next week, just in the […]
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Gawd, I wish I had written this brilliance, Oscar – in fact written by an unknown, but circulating on the net … “I just can’t get excited about a sporting event, where a government has spent millions funding it, yet people still live in squalor and deprivation. Where drugs
By Natasha Boddy, Canberra Times As a father of a child with autism, Ricky Stuart knows how valuable respite and support can be for families and carers of children with disabilities. Passionate about the need for respite services, Mr Stuart has dreamt of building a new respite centre for children with disabilities in Canberra. It
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Source: Melbourne Football Club COACH Paul Roos has praised his charges to come back from a 33-point deficit in the third quarter to claim a stirring one-point victory over Essendon at the MCG on Sunday night. Roos said Essendon played “as good a footy as teams have played against us this year” in the first
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By Matthew Burke, The Sun Herald There is no worse sight than seeing a sportsperson fall through injury. Their hopes and dreams go up in smoke, as does the close-knit group that surrounds them, all letting out a collective sigh of “oh no”. That’s certainly what I said when Stephen Moore went down on Saturday,
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By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Let’s talk about Jesus and sport. No, no, no, not about how Jesus was the most legendary fullback Jerusalem ever had, nor even how, in terms of comebacks – see the Resurrection – he even outdid Lazarus. I don’t even want to focus on the ludicrously pompous tendency of
Sylvia Jeffreys, The Today Show’s new News Presenter, has quickly established herself as one of the most versatile members of the Nine Network’s top-rating news and current affairs team. A trained journalist, Queensland-born Sylvia launched her television career with Channel 9 in Brisbane, her reports, in particular, on the devastating 2010-2011 Queensland floods, which claimed
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The Today Show announced this morning that Nine Network journalist Sylvia Jeffreys will be joining the program to take up the role of news presenter from next Monday, June 9. “It is a huge privilege to be stepping into this role. I’ve been a part of the TODAY family in one way or another for four
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By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Well knock me over with a feather. The decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022 was corrupt, you say? How do you know when Sepp Blatter is telling porkies and covering up FIFA atrocities? His lips are moving. So when even he says the whole thing was
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By Ricky Stuart, The Sunday Telegraph THERE’S a story I like to go back to from time to time. It’s about a boxer, an old middleweight champion named Vito Antuofermo, and the night he fought a fighter called Cyclone Hart. Hart was a big puncher and a big favourite. Everybody expected him to win. But