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Jessica HalloranChief Sports Writer

Jessica Halloran is a Walkley award-winning sports writer. She has been covering sport for two decades and has reported from Olympic Games, world swimming and athletics championships, the rugby World Cup as well as the AFL and NRL finals series. In 2017 she wrote Jelena Dokic’s biography Unbreakable which went on to become a bestseller.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 04: AFL CEO Andrew Dillon speaks to the media during a press conference at Luna Park on March 04, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. The AFL today announced that matches scheduled for Thursday night in Brisbane and Saturday on the Gold Coast will not go ahead as planned due to the cyclone predicted to affect Brisbane and Queensland this week. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

AFL reveals smart move on head injuries

Sydney and Geelong will use smart mouthguards to measure contact in training and games, among a raft of measures to be rolled out as the league works towards potentially reducing contact in training sessions, league CEO Andrew Dillon says.

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