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Here is today's speeches segment on ABC's Breakfast with Sammy J. This morning I put myself under some unnecessary pressure by setting my alarm for…

Mar 22

He's here — 'The day I played on Plugger' Escucha ahora (11 min) | This is the podcast version of the piece I published on Thursday. My great mate John Origlasso played on Tony Lockett at…

Mar 18

The I in that title isn't me. It's John Origlasso, a fellow zero-gamer who went through the mill with me at Hawthorn. This is about his day playing on…

Mar 16

Time to fly Watch now (1 min) | The AFL asked me back to work on their season launch script. The finished video was released last week. It's not all my work, but…

Mar 14

It's Australian Reading Hour today!Watch now (19 sec) | My favourite page to read out loud is ... My 10 favourite read out loud picture books are ....

Mar 9

This piece ran in a book called 'Kitchen Table Memoirs' a few years back. It's about the time we quadruple bounced my then five year old brother, Ned…

Mar 6

One last backflip after fifty Watch now (49 sec) | With a disintegrating ankle and a bung knee, I decided to finish a storied trampolining life with one last backflip after fifty…

Mar 5

February 2023

The Aussie men's cricket team is touring India and it's going about as well as it usually does. In 2001, Steve Waugh called it 'The Final Frontier' and…

Feb 24

My podcast is back for a fourth year, and the first guest is Walkley winning journalist and co-author of Underbelly series, Andrew Rule. We talked about…

Feb 22

Polly's 50th speech for me Watch now (4 min) | On November 1st last year, my fifteen year old daughter Polly wrote and delivered a lovely birthday speech for me! Jack was MC. One…

Feb 19

February 16th was National Tim Tam Day and a chance for wife Tam and brother-in law Tim to receive a free packet of Tim Tams. And this isn't the first…

Feb 17

It's Tamsin and my 15th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift is crystal. The modern gift is 'Substack post'. Happy anniversary, Tam!

Feb 15

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