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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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Sam Kerr to face trial in England. Artwork by Emilia Tortorella

Powerbrokers fume at Sam Kerr’s secret race scandal

While her Matildas coach and local football management were kept in the dark for over a year, those in the know at Chelsea enveloped the superstar in a cloak of secrecy.

Jacquelin Magnay and Jessica Halloran

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Phil Waugh, Rugby Australia's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), speaks during a press conference in Sydney on February 19, 2024. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Waugh takes first steps towards Super Rugby overhaul

Rugby Australia has engaged McKinsey & Company as it looks into what number of teams in Australia would be best both high performance-wise and commercially.

Jessica Halloran

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DO NOT PUBLISH BEFORE SAT 2ND MARCH 2024 NO AUS/ NEWS.COM, ....WARNING.......WARNING. WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. L/R Bothers Ben , Tom & Jake Trbojevic in Las Vegas ahead of the NRL launch. MUST CREDIT by Grant Trouville

Battle on for bright lights of centre stage

In the shadow of the NRL’s glittering start in Las Vegas, the AFL is continuing to push into the ‘northern market’ with it’s blockbuster games opening round games to be played at the SCG and Gabba.

Jessica Halloran

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 20: Australian Rugby World Cup 2027 Bid Advisory Board member Phil Kearns speaks to the media during the Australian Rugby World Cup 2027 bid launch at the Museum of Contemporary Art on May 20, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images for Rugby Australia)

Kearns’s serve to ‘childish’ and ‘selfish’ state unions

Former Australian captain says five Super Rugby franchises are not fit for purpose and has urged for two teams to be cut for the sake of the Wallabies.

Jessica Halloran

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 23: Rob Leota of the Rebels scores a try that was later disalloweduring the round one Super Rugby Pacific match between Melbourne Rebels and ACT Brumbies at AAMI Park, on February 23, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Insolvent Rebels with a cause: fighting extinction

Despite fighting words from Rebels players before the season opener, the Melbourne side lost to the ACT Brumbies 30-3 in front of a disappointing home crowd.

Jessica Halloran

RugbyRugby Union

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16: Vaiolini Ekuasi of the Rebels runs with the ball during the Super Rugby Pacific Pre-Season Match between Melbourne Rebels and Fijian Drua at Gosch's Paddock on February 16, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Rebels might not be the only Super Rugby domino to fall

The Australian Super Rugby presence could be stripped back to just three teams with the country’s most successful franchise in the firing line.

Jessica Halloran

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 01: Baden Stephenson, Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Rebels, poses for a photograph during a Wallabies media opportunity at Melbourne Cricket Ground on May 01, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Rebels chase white knight for $20m debt

The embattled club’s powerbrokers are working on a last-ditch attempt to save the Victorian team three days out from their opening Super Rugby match.

Jessica Halloran

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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 14: Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh at the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific Season Launch on February 14, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Rowland/Getty Images for Rugby Australia)

New Wallabies culture ‘can repel rugby poachers’

RA chief Phil Waugh has outlined his plans to keep talented players in Super Rugby, and in turn spurn cashed-up foreign clubs.

Jessica Halloran

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 03: Rebels players prepare for a scrum during the Super Rugby Pacific Trial Match between Melbourne Rebels and NSW Waratahs at Harold Caterson Reserve on February 03, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)

Rebels say RA owes $8m as $20m debt revealed

The Melbourne Rebels have squared up with Rugby Australia in an extraordinary report. ASIC documents also state RA needs to inject more money for the Rebels to survive this season.

Jessica Halloran and John Stensholt

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 14: Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh speaks to the media during a Rugby Australia & New South Wales Rugby Union Media Opportunity at Daceyville on November 14, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Pressure on Rugby Australia to release review of World Cup disaster

A review into the Wallabies’ disastrous World Cup is yet to be released to the Super Rugby clubs – who are demanding a copy. But an RA source says the report will be released ‘imminently’.

Jessica Halloran

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