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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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Commonwealth Games Australia CEO Craig Phillips speaks to media during a press conference in Melbourne, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Picture: SKYNEWS

Victoria’s global sport status ‘jeopardised’

A bitterly disappointed Commonwealth Games chief has blasted the Andrews government’s move to cancel the 2026 event.

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Christian Welsh during Melbourne Storm NRL training session at Albury Sports Ground in Albury, Monday, May 11, 2020. (AAP Image/Simon Dallinger) NO ARCHIVING

Brain risks core of CBA impasse

Melbourne Storm captain Christian Welch has broken his silence saying player safety from a longer season is at the heart of the breakdown in talks between the RLPA and the NRL.

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NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA. JUNE 9, 2023: Robbie O'Davis at home in Newcastle. Picture: Martin Ollman / The Australian

Probe into NRL brain study ‘fail’

The rugby league commission will investigate allegations players and families were not told of brain injuries while taking part in a concussion study.

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15/6/23: Former Newcastle Knights NRL player Robbie O'Davis on Redhead Beach, Newcastle. He has been diagnosed with probable-CTE after all the head knocks from playing football. John Feder/The Australian.

What type of organisation does the NRL want to be?

The NRL is a billion-dollar competition but has ignored the plight of a generation of players that helped build the game.

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Players boss in brain study call

Rugby League Players Association boss says there should be ‘consequences’ if the NRL study has failed current and former footballers.

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AUGUST 19, 2000 : Tony Butterfield (ball) during Sydney Roosters v Newcastle First NRL Preliminary Final at SFS, 19/08/00. Pic Mark Evans.Rugby League A/CT

Captain’s call on NRL concussion study

Former Knights captain Tony Butterfield has called for rugby league boss Peter V’landys to intervene in the league’s controversial NRL concussion study and ‘sort this mess out’.

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Don’t let players ‘suffer in silence’

The ARL Commission will debate its concussions study, after revelations researchers allegedly didn’t warn a legend scans showed he had a brain injury.

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Dementia Knightmare: ‘Why weren’t we told?’

In 2018, NRL researchers gave Newcastle Knights hero Robbie O’Davis a brain scan. He hoped it would explain his changing behaviour. For years he says the truth wasn’t shared with him.

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NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA. JUNE 9, 2023: Robbie O'Davis in his memorabilia room at home in Newcastle. Picture: Martin Ollman / The Australian

‘I went to the cliff face heaps of times’

NRL hero Robbie O’Davis, a dual Knights premiership hero who claimed the Clive Churchill Medal in 1997, says the noise in his head became too much.

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Concussion expert Professor Andrew Gardner

Experts question head-knock impact

The NRL’s concussion advisers Associate Professor Andrew Gardner and Professor Chris Levi say more research must be done to determine if head knocks and dementia are linked.

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