Garry Linnell
Garry Linnell is a Fairfax Media columnist and the co-presenter of the 2UE Breakfast Show.
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Sydney stadium cash-splash is an obscene waste of money
The NSW government is about to spend an outrageous sum on our sporting stadiums.
- by Garry Linnell
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Prohibition of pokies won't solve gambling problems
If you're not capable of resisting the siren song of the pokies, should society turn down its volume for you?
- by Garry Linnell
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As Prince Philip waves goodbye, perhaps it's time for Queen Elizabeth, too
As Prince Philip waves goodbye, perhaps it’s time for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to do the same.
- by Garry Linnell
Laurie Oakes said one word and I tumbled out of the hammock
It's a sunny weekend afternoon and the phone rings. An unmistakeable gruff voice is on the other end.
- by Garry Linnell
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Bernard Tomic's honest outpouring reveals professional sport's awful truth
Ahem. This meeting of the Bernard Tomic Appreciation Society is now called to order.
- by Garry Linnell
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We gambled on a wedding in Las Vegas, and miraculously, it paid off
Amid the heat, the noise and heaving mass of humanity, we wondered, could we pull this off?
- by Garry Linnell
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Parenting: we've done OK for a few million years
I smacked my daughter once. Only once. She was nine years old and the princess had turned into an evil queen, sitting on the couch, obstinately refusing to do what she'd been asked. Like all kids, she knew which buttons to press, and in what order. But she'd never pressed them all at once before. So she gave it a go.
- by Garry Linnell
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Amazon in Australia: why checkout staff beat robots
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos claims the introduction of robots to replace checkout staff at Whole Foods will be a world first, but every consumer in Australia knows that replacing staff in stores and restaurants with robots began here years ago.
- by Garry Linnell
Stop apologising for obesity
If people plead ignorance that stuffing more food into their mouths and doing less exercise leads to weight gain, then what hope?
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Attack on cash economy is distracting us from the government's greatest failure
If the meek really do end up inheriting the earth then Australia is sure to become the world's greatest superpower.
- by Garry Linnell
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Why I won't be giving to the Salvos Appeal
Big religions that long ago lost their Christian spirit certainly don't deserve our dough.
- by Garry Linnell
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