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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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AnalysisNRL

NRL Legend Wally Lewis with the 2021 NRL Grand Final Trophy at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, on Friday 24 September 2021.Picture: Jerad Williams

The tragic cost of a glorious rugby league career

Immortal Wally Lewis, off the back of a dementia diagnosis, said he would do it all again. Most brain-damaged footballers say the same. But what about their wives?

Jessica Halloran and Wendy Carlisle

EXCLUSIVESport

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 28: Eddie Jones, Head Coach of the Wallabies watches on during the Australian Wallabies captain's run at Brighton Grammar School on July 28, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)

Wallabies have culture issues we will fix: Jones

Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has identified deep cultural issues within the Australian side as it looks to kickstart its spluttering World Cup preparation.

Jessica Halloran

EXCLUSIVERugby Union

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 25: Wallabies head coach Eddie Jones smiles during an Australia Wallabies training session at Brighton Grammar School on July 25, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Jones spars with critics in World Cup ads

Eddie Jones stars in a new ad campaign which capitalises on the belief that the Wallabies have ‘no chance’ in France | WATCH

Jessica Halloran

Bledisoe CupRugby Union

Phil Waugh, RA CEO, in R.M. Williams classic wallaby gear

Wallabies can upset All Blacks with good start: Waugh

Rugby Australia CEO says there are two things the Wallabies must do to beat New Zealand with ticket sales strong despite a disappointing start to the season.

Jessica Halloran and Marco Monteverde

Sport

Victoria has thirst for Rugby World Cup final at the MCG

After dumping the Commonwealth Games the Dan Andrews’ government is as ‘keen as mustard’ to host the rugby World Cup final at the MCG in 2027.

Jessica Halloran

ATHLETICSSport

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 23: Cameron Myers of Australia (C) competes in the Mens 1 Mile Run John Landy during the Maurie Plant Meet at Lakeside Stadium on February 23, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Legendary coach hails record-breaker

Teenager Cameron Myers loves to run, to win and smash world records. His coach, Dick Telford, describes Myers as ‘quite remarkable for a youngster’.

Jessica Halloran

exclusivePolitics

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews reacts during a press conference at Parliament House in Melbourne, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. The Andrews Labor Government has cancelled the 2026 Commonwealth Games, slated to be held across Victoria. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Games canceller Dan Andrews’ false start

Victorian taxpayers face a compensation bill of tens of millions of dollars after Daniel Andrews dumped the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Jacquelin Magnay, John Ferguson and Jessica Halloran

Commonwealth GamesPolitics

John Steffensen of Australia reacts after winning the men's 400 metres title at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 02/03/2006. Steffensen said he will boycott the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games and not defend his 400 metre title because of unresolved differences with Athletics Australia.

Former champions condemn ‘slap in the face’

Champion athletes have been left devastated by the ‘embarrassing’ axing of the Commonwealth Games.

Jessica Halloran

Commonwealth ChaosNation

John Coates at the announcement of the CEO of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cindy Hook, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - Picture: Richard Walker

Cancelled Games a ‘terrible embarrassment’

Olympic powerbroker John Coates says Dan Andrews’ decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games will have significant ramifications for Australian sport going forward.

Jessica Halloran

exclusiveSport

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - FEBRUARY 25, 2021.AOC President John Coates speaks during a press conference at Parliament House. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Future Host Summer Commission has designated Brisbane as the

‘Embarrassment’: Coates slams Games cancellation

John Coates, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, says Victoria should not have bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games without its business case ‘stacking up’.

Jessica Halloran

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