To do what she’s done for 17 years is an Olympic feat of intellectual, emotional and physical endurance. An impossible act to follow

First the disclaimer: Fran Kelly is a dear friend of my family’s.

But also know this: it is a measure of her professionalism and dedication to journalism – which is to say, objectively parsing the facts and tailoring incisive questions – that friendship would never get in the way of a challenging “Fran” interview.

He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends Paul Daley’s profile on Peter Doherty, which ranges from politics, books, misinformation and that tweet

You can read the original article here: Covid, Twitter, and Dan Murphy’s opening hours: Peter Doherty on his not-so-restful retirement

I’m imagining an empty G. I’ll try to be happy for mates in Perth but I’ve got serious Melbourne fomo

There is no week in the calendar I love more than the one that counts down to the AFL grand final.

As an ex-Melburnian, much of whose past is there, it’s a nostalgic festival of kinship and mates and memories and, foremost, the game – for all its anthropological intrigues and tribalism, hatreds and loves, history and mythology.

Usually I would think, what’s the point of picnics?

I liked my grandmother-in-law.

She was feisty and forthright. No-nonsense and funny. Candid and practical in that laconic grew-up-through-the-Great-Depression, rural-Queensland way she had.

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