Andrew Tate
Getting fit after COVID – sport officials to start with small goals and work up
Elite sport’s showpiece events have, by their very nature, long relied on striving to be bigger and better every year – in...
Victorian Premier offers a top-shelf result after Melbourne’s emotional journey
If the darkest hour is truly just before the dawn, then Melbourne and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews awoke on Monday in a...
AFL grand final: Richmond and Dustin Martin reset the clock on 2020
In the final minutes of a 2020 season, where the unexpected and bizarre became the norm, there was something comforting in Richmond...
AFL grand final: When Struggletown meets Sleepy Hollow, history is made
When AFL heart and soul club Fitzroy were packed off to Brisbane as part of the painful birth of a national competition...
AFL: Families and finals, the glue that makes football stick
Football has long run on a sense of ‘family’ – mums and dads who encourage and bring on the next generation, wives,...
Throw out your 2020 AFL bingo cards as the finals will provide even more twists
AFL fans long ago threw out their 2020 season bingo cards and on the eve of the finals, in this most uncertain...
Cathy Freeman united Australia in 49.11 seconds. We spent the next two decades undoing it
Nostalgia is the golden thread that has made the Olympic movement great – and haven’t we been mining it for shiny bits...
Three wishes: The AFL gets the things it wants for the grand final
So, it’s an AFL grand final at the Gabba … of course it is. There’s been little doubt that Queensland, and not...
COVID defence: 103-year-old Digger says wear a mask, ‘for your own life, not mine’
One of Australia’s oldest World War II veterans, Alf Carpenter has a message for those finding coronavirus restrictions too much to bear...
How passion and self-interest kept the spring racing carnivals on track
Former prime minister Paul Keating famously popularised the maxim ‘Always back self-interest – at least you know it’s trying’. So it’s no...