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Stephen Drill covers organised crime, business and the politics of sport. His investigative podcasts include Mafia’s Web, Bikie’s Inc. and Faith On Trial. Drill was Europe correspondent for the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail and Adelaide Advertiser from 2019 to 2021. The Walkley Award winner has also worked at The Wall Street Journal in New York and The Sun in London.

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VIC News

Sarah Hawthorn, 33, from Cobram, who is fighting for life in hospital after getting the flu.

Young mum in coma unaware she gave birth

A FIT and healthy young Victorian mum is in an induced coma, fighting for life, after contracting the flu while pregnant, with the 33-year-old not knowing she has given birth to a beautiful boy.

VIC News

BCM NEWS 26/6/2012. Generic gaming machine or poker machine images. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

AFL clubs call for pokies ban compo

AFL clubs want the league to pay them compensation to get out of pokies as nine Victorian clubs weigh up whether to buy the rights to run pokies for another 20 years.

ExclusiveNews

Young Dustin’s secret plan to be an AFL star

DUSTIN Martin’s mum Kathy knew he was going to be a champion, with her box of Dusty’s keepsakes including a strategy he penned as a young footballer on how he was going to become an “AFL star”.

VIC News

CFA Fiskville cancer story. Former CFA Chief Officer Brian Potter who has multiple illnesses recalls his days at Fiskville.

Secret payout for CFA whistleblower hero

EXCLUSIVE: BRIAN Potter, the whistleblower who exposed the CFA’s Fiskville cancer scandal, has finally received a payout — more than three years after he died.

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Funeral for Rebels Sergeant-at-Arms Simon Rasic at the Bringelly Clubhouse and also the Inspire Church at Hoxton Park. Shane (KIWI) Martin father of Richmond AFL player Dustin Martin pictured. Picture: Adam Taylor

‘Too much Sons of Anarchy’

DUSTIN Martin’s exiled dad Shane has defended his former life as Rebels bikie, saying it was nothing like the TV stereotype and they ‘just hung out and rode Harleys’.

ExclusiveLaw & Order

PM ‘proud’ new laws ban Dusty’s dad

LATEST: PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is proud of his government’s decision to ban Dustin Martin’s dad, Shane, from returning to Australia.

Richmond

Monday looms as Dusty D-Day

RICHMOND is under pressure to increase its offer to Dustin Martin, with the gun midfielder to decide his football future as early as Monday.

AFL

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 10: AFL Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan, speaks to the media during an AFL press conference at AFL House on August 10, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

McLachlan backs HR on employee issues

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has backed his human resources department to deal with issues between employees.

AFL News

14/07/2017: Simon Lethlean leaves his home in Melbourne. Picture: Stuart McEvoy for the Australian.

AFL affair fallout lingers for Lethlean

THE fallout from an AFL sex scandal is lingering as it was confirmed Simon Lethlean will step down as director of a sporting statistics company after admitting to an ‘inappropriate’ affair.

AFL

Richard Simkiss AFL general manager of commercial

Sleazy AFL list ranked women by looks

THE AFL affairs scandal has deepened amid revelations some men at the league’s headquarters created a “Top 10” list of female staff they wanted to have sex with.

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