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Injury lawyers are preparing to file a class action suit against the AFL, which they say must better care for hundreds of former players harmed by concussion within the sport.

Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 02.46 EST A first-time novelist has collected Australia’s richest literary prize with her apocalyptic and eerily-timed tale about a world in the throes of a pandemic. Dr Laura Jean McKay took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature on Monday for The Animals in That Country, a debut novel described by Guardian reviewer Justine Jordan as a fierce and funny exploration of other consciousnesses, and the limits of language. The prescient nature of the work is purely coincidental, McKay told the Guardian, speaking from her home in New Zealand’s Palmerston...

Kate Grenville, Sofie Laguna, Julia Baird and others: the 20 best Australian books of 2020 Brigid Delaney, Beejay Silcox, Paul Daley, Steph Harmon, Stephanie Convery, Thuy On, Bec Kavanagh, Michael Williams, Paul Daley, Fiona Wright and Lucy Clark 1. Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos Picador This novel is a saga in the truest definition of that word, spanning more than 50 years of one Greek-Australian family and the rise and fall of their cafe franchise. The story of Lucky’s follows various twists and turns of fortune and highlights the role of luck and serendipity in fate – almo...