Cronulla’s superstar Nicho Hynes is the grandson of a Wiradjuri man and that heritage has dominated his thinking and perception of himself from the moment he knew about it. As he grew he blossomed into his culture and right now he plays for not only his Cronulla Sharks but also […]
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Unashamedly ‘fluid’ NRL cult hero Toby Rudolf has revealed his desperation to secure a spot on a Mardi Gras float after the league was knocked back in the wake of last year’s pride jersey fiasco. The 27-year-old Sharks enforcer has done his best to be a spokesperson for the gay […]
Paul Green’s last public appearance came just days before his shock death – speaking on his ‘good memories’ while attending an NRL game with former teammates. The death of the legendary NRL figure – who took out one of the sport’s highest awards as a player when he collected the […]
Ex-Cronulla Sharks star with a baby on the way is left a quadriplegic after breaking his neck in horror rugby incident Ex-Cronulla Sharks winger broke his neck playing NSW country rugby union Nathan Stapleton, 32, represented Sharks from 2009-2014, scored 17 tries Received the devastating news he has been left […]
This time last year social media was abuzz with the idea of NRL Island as a solution to the difficulties of playing rugby league through a pandemic. Although the idea of putting all 16 teams and their support staff on an island to play out the entire season never came […]
As many have suspected all along, the kids are all right. Better, actually, if the A-League’s opening fixtures are a barometer of young local talent. Even Australian football’s perennial navel-gazers had reason to peer outside themselves for 73 minutes this week when Calem Nieuwenhof turned his A-League debut into an […]
Two Victorians with links to Melbourne’s coronavirus outbreak have tested positive for Covid-19, after they drove into New South Wales and visited venues on the state’s south coast before joining the rush of residents that crossed back into Victoria before the border closed over the new year. The pair’s diagnosis […]
Australia’s ill-defined culture is built on compromises between notions of public good and the personal, political and financial ambitions of the rich and powerful. In the gulf between these varying points of view – moreover in the shadows of the rich and powerful and lightyears away from the greater good […]