Andrew Tate
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...
Why tweet? In social media, like sport, the cesspit can outshine the sensational
When Callan Ward made a five-course banquet over a high bump in the final minutes of the Greater Western Sydney clash against...
Anything’s possible as independent thought emerges out of isolation
Victoria, it’s a milestone day! Today, August 5, 2020, marks a full 170 years since Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the...
Even in a global pandemic, AFL circus is a virus that’s hard to tame
The AFL, its clubs and fans have long excelled in navel-gazing of the highest order – with Victorians in a coronavirus lockdown...
Rare as hen’s teeth: Chicken coupe Ford starts cheap, ends with bucks, bucks, bucks
For years it was an object of fascination and discussion on classic car chat forums, but now the almost mythical Queensland chicken...