VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Game, seat and match
You’ve painstakingly peeled the foil from the overfilled mini bird bath of fruit juice and set it anxiously on the tray table in front...
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...
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,...
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...
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)
Division 2
Preliminary final: Wyndhamvale...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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Three arrests after extended follow
Three youths in an allegedly stolen care were arrested after police followed them across Melbourne’s northwest early on Thursday morning.
Officers spotted a grey Audi...
