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QUE SERA: Love locks … and deadlock
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…
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SPECIAL: Sarah Snook | Ready for her close-up
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…
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VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Dump the whole ram thing
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.…
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WRFL FINALS: Week 2 fixture
WRFL FINALS WEEK 2 Division 1 Second semi-final: Deer Park v Spotswood (Chirnside Park, 2.15pm, Saturday) First semi-final: Werribee Districts v Hoppers Crossing (Chirnside Park, 2.15pm, Sunday)…
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BULLDOGS IN FOCUS: Peter Gordon | Whitten Oval rocks
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…
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BULLDOGS IN FOCUS | Jarrad Grant | No place like home
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…
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DON DEEBLE RISING STAR: Jayden Christie
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…
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VIRGINIA TRIOLI: The great education debate
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…
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PROFILE: Elliot Costello | The good son
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…
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BULLDOGS IN FOCUS | Peter Gordon | Following the arc of angst
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…
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QUE SERA: When ordinary things become prized possessions
“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…
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SPECIAL: Helen Kapalos | Eye of the storm
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…
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SPECIAL: Will Ewing | Rolling Thunder Vietnam
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…
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INTERVIEW: Patrick Hughes | The Expendables 3
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…
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INTERVIEW: Stokehouse | From the ashes
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…















