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The 1.5-kilometre walk to the summit of Tomaree Head is not the easiest, but the climb has its own reward. Standing 160 metres above the entrance…

When Sarah Snook was a little girl in Adelaide, she set herself some pretty daunting standards. “When I graduated from primary to secondary school, they…

By the time you read to the end of this column, the laptop on which it was written will have been hurled out the window.…

Since its last AFL game, the Whitten Oval’s crowd capacity has been reduced to about 10,000. Next Sunday at 1pm, we host  local rivals Williamstown in…

We were three points down when Fletcher Roberts marked the ball and the siren sounded on Sunday. But he’s a beautiful kick, and I wanted…

It’s been a busy 12 months for Jayden Christie (above). Long known as one of the western suburb’s best young lawn bowlers, the 15-year-old has…

When a colleague of mine was recently asked how much longer he had kids at school, he smiled sardonically and replied, “$150,000 longer”. That family’s choice of…

Many parents might baulk at the idea of welcoming prostitutes and drug addicts into the family home, but for Elliot Costello and his siblings Claire…

In my first stint as president back in the ’90s, my approach to umpires and opposition players during the course of a game was utterly…

“It’s funny how when someone dies, things they treasured turn out to be just that … things,” my father observes. Four months after the death…

Sometimes perspective is a powerful thing. On the same day in June last year that Helen Kapalos read the headline on a media website: “Helen…

From the opening number of Australia’s newest home-grown musical you can almost hear the rhythmic wop, wop, wop of helicopter blades as memories come in…

Necromancy isn’t a skill you might associate with Sylvester Stallone, but over the past decade he has proved remarkably adept at resurrecting the ghosts of…

It was just after 11pm on January 17 when restaurant tsar Frank van Haandel got the call from his general manager, Anthony Musarra, alerting him…