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Roy EcclestonFreelance journalist

Roy has worked for The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail, The Age, The Australian and The Bulletin; and written for Time magazine and The Times of London. He has covered two Olympic Games, worked for five years in the federal press gallery, and from 2000-2005 was The Australian’s Washington correspondent.

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SA Weekend
Richard Beasley SC with a picture of Barnaby Joyce, photographer unknown.

Why top silk wants Barnaby’s b***s on a plate

A former Adelaide lawyer, now top Sydney silk, is fired up about the “unlawful drafting” of the Murray Darling Basin plan, which he says, has ‘f..ked over’ SA. He’s so angry, he says he’d have Barnaby Joyce’s testicles on a plate, if he could.

SA News
SA Weekend David Rohrsheim, Manager of the South Australian Venture Capital Fund on September 25, 2020. Picture Matt Turner.

SA must embrace failure to move on and up

Former Uber boss David Rohrsheim wants South Australians to see failure as a learning experience, and not constanly try to minimise mistakes, if we’re going to continue to become a city for entrepeneurs.

Travel
EXTREIOR OF SKY HOUSEM, SNELLINGS BEACH, KI, COURTESY LIFETIME RETREATS

Sky House at Snelling Beach

You won’t want to leave once you settle back onto the leather coach, or the big fluffy armchair, just made for gazing through the arched windows to the sea below.

SA Weekend
Adelaide-raised actor GARY SWEET stars in Australian drama series Hungry Ghosts -  Salon owner NGOC (Joanne Nguyen) with HUGH (Gary Sweet) _ Photo Credit Sarah Enticknap

Why I wanted to be the villain

From The Sullivans to Bradman to three broken marriages, Gary Sweet reveals how he coped with falling from true blue Aussie hero to notorious fodder for the tabloid press.

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