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David Laird stands ready beneath the Lonesome Pine with “Clarrie’s Flag”, the banner of the 7th Battalion, for the early Anzac ceremony at Wattle Park.

The park where Anzac Day comes early, beneath Australia’s oldest Lone Pine

Each year hundreds flock to the Anzac service that is held in Wattle Park a week before Anzac Day. This year, it will be two weeks early.

  • Tony Wright

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Wallabies captain Harry Wilson on the charge against New Zealand.

‘Not viable’: Kiwis kill RA plan to stage lucrative Bledisloe Cup on Anzac Day

After initial enthusiasm, New Zealand Rugby bosses say they won’t support an annual clash between the Wallabies and the All Blacks in April - despite the fact it could earn them millions.

  • Iain Payten
New friends: Australian Army veterans Dominik Kul and Eamon Hale with Kul’s daughter Olivia, 3, and Hale’s daughter Elizabeth, 3.

Military veterans ditch the khaki for a parade of a different kind

A veterans’ march, but not as we know it, was held among Sunday joggers along Melbourne’s Tan.

  • Carolyn Webb
Michelle Ananda-Rajah’s Higgins electorate update.

Labor MP ups the puzzlement factor – on your dime

A glossy flyer from Michelle Ananda-Rajah confused voters beyond her own electorate of Higgins.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The Shrine or Remembrance has signed a contract with catering company Peter Rowland Group to host commercial events there.

‘Trampling over the dead’: Shrine to host events under controversial commercial deal

A controversial new agreement will bring commercial events to Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance for the first time. And many veterans are not happy.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Albert Jacka.

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’: On the eve of battle, Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917, as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front, Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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The new AFL broadcast rights deal will lead to changes for some viewers from 2025.

How Fox Footy’s ‘Super Saturday’ deal will shape the AFL fixture

The new deal, starting in 2025, gives Fox Footy exclusive broadcast rights on Saturdays for the first eight rounds and will result in delayed coverage on free-to-air.

  • Peter Ryan
Albert Jacka in camp at Gallipoli, around August 1915.

‘Well, I managed to get the buggers, sir’: The daring plan that created a legend

Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient for his actions in Gallipoli when Turkish troops launched an attack on troops dug in at Courtney’s Post.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Sophie Ray, Mick Bainbridge

Frosty silence, then heated texts and an internal complaint: The undoing of the RSL NSW leadership

An internal power struggle at RSL NSW has brought long-standing tensions into the open.

  • Harriet Alexander
Blondie performing at
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The text messages that reveal the pandemonium behind a cancelled music festival

The festival made headlines for being “disrespectful”. Now, the organisers are demanding compensation.

  • Harriet Alexander

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