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Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Fox Footy’s Sarah Jones has paid a special tribute to her grandpa and Essendon legend Jack Jones, revealing why she will feel his loss more than ever this Anzac Day.

The Spinoff: Transtasman food face-off - a definitive ruling on who the bloody hell owns what 21 Apr, 2021 01:02 AM 10 minutes to read In honour of the transtasman bubble, we reignite the food feuds that have defined the relationship between Kiwis and Aussies. Photo / The Spinoff In honour of the transtasman bubble, we reignite the food feuds that have defined the relationship between Kiwis and Aussies. Photo / The Spinoff Other This story was originally published by The Spinoff Australia Week:...

The plaque commemorates 162 yeas since the first horse race at Orari. Payne also emphasised the importance of the Orari and Waimate runs to horse racing in the area, with horses first brought to the area for agriculture. Payne pointed out that the racing clubs in the area predated the formation of the South Canterbury Rugby Union by 19 years. Payne has a personal connection to racing in the area, as his father was a trustee of the horse racing club for 25 years, and his grandfather ran hors...

The 2021 Queen Elizabeth Stakes: A celebration of great 2,000m WFA horse racing A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size How good will Saturday’s $4 million Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes be? One only has to go to recall last year’s edition when the English horse Addeybb thrashed Verry Elleegant with the very good Japanese horse Danon Premium third. Share Having been a keen racing enthusias...

In the Herald: April 7, 1932 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Phar Lap dead Phar Lap, Australia’s wonder racehorse, died of colic on Tuesday afternoon at Menlo Park (California). “Rumours that the horse has been poisoned have been strenuously denied.” The suggestion has been made that the horse’s skeleton should be brought to Australia and preserved at the Institute of Anatomy at Canberra. “The news comes as a great...

The Dry. Director Robert Connolly’s crime drama has taken an impressive $20.4 million at the box office to become the 13th highest grossing Australian film in this country ... closing in on Red Dog and The top earner for 35 years now is still Crocodile Dundee, which took $47.7 million in 1986. But these types of achievements always ignore the impact of inflation. They raise the question: what would be the most successful Australian films in today’s dollars? This masthead took Numero’s ...

Peter Garrett “once had a penpal in Gisborne. There’s your Kiwi connection, so that’s it.” OPINION/SATIRE: This week Facebook, helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, the apparent evil twin of Marvel’s Peter Parker – a passing-for-teenage man bitten by a radioactive spider but who instead of using his powers for good spins a worldwide web of dopamine-inducing likes, cat memes and fake news – locked tentacles with the Australian government. It was a battle described by commentators as “Wait,...