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Boxer Danny Green to tackle Sydney to Hobart yacht race

December 11, 2009
boxer Danny Green at the Loyal Foundation charity lunch December 11 2009

It took Danny Green just two days – and a pile of changed nappies and school runs with his kids Archie and Chloe – to come back to earth from his brilliant 2-minute fight with American Roy Jones Junior. Green told me earlier today that he couldn’t wait to get home to Perth after spending […]

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Malcolm Turnbull – still “leader” of the Opposition

December 9, 2009
The sign in Malcolm Turnbull's office one week after being ousted from the LIberal Party leadership

A week is a long time in politics, but it’s not long enough for the Liberal Party’s new bomb-chucker, Malcolm Turnbull, to build a bridge and get over his lost leadership. A quick stroll by his electoral office on the borders of Edgecliff, Double Bay and Woollahra yesterday revealed that while Tony Abbott was shuffling […]

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Joel Edgerton is on fire

December 3, 2009
Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams classic, A Streetcar Named Desire

Sydney actor Joel Edgerton is on fire – and so is Cate Blanchett, but we already knew that. The New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley has just anointed him for his “excellent” performance alongside massively praised Cate Blanchett in the Tennessee Williams epic, A Streetcar Named Desire. (The play was universally applauded by critics, including […]

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Why do some women hate Tony Abbott?

December 2, 2009
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Within minutes of Tony Abbott’s unexpected ascent to the leadership of the embattled Liberal Party yesterday, the women in the Twitterverse that I follow were baying for blood. Abbott’s blood, and lots of it. They were furious that the man who has been dubbed Captain Catholic or the Mad Monk had toppled the “progressive” ETS-champion […]

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Sophie Gralton painting sells for $50,000 at auction

November 27, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Sydney artist Sophie Gralton who was rejected by the Australian version of The Apprentice for one of the show’s challenges. Well, I bet the men’s team of Morello, Gavin and Sam – who chose two other artists instead of Gralton only to be out-sold by more than […]

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Golfer Adam Scott in form for Australian Open

November 20, 2009
Aussie golfer Adam Scott

A couple of weeks ago I spent the day with Australian golfer Adam Scott for an interview published last weekend in sunday magazine. The 29-year-old Queenslander was intent on getting his form back for the final four tournaments of the year, the first of which was the Barclays Open in Singapore where he finished third […]

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