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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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‘foundations established’Rugby Union

DAILY TELEGRAPH. JANUARY 31, 2023.Pictured at Matraville Sports High School today is CEO of Australian Rugby Union Andy Marinos, during a press conference to announce new Wallabies head coach Eddie Jones. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Rugby Australia boss out after shock resignation

A former Wallaby is in the frame to take the top job at Rugby Australia, as it continues to ramp up its profile.

Jessica Halloran

Code warSport

DAILY TELEGRAPH. JANUARY 31, 2023.Pictured at Matraville Sports High School today is new Wallabies head coach Eddie Jones during a press conference with Chairman of Australian Rugby Union Hamish McLennan, and CEO of Australian Rugby Union Andy Marinos, to announce his appointment. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Jones: He’s taking rugby back to our golden years

Eddie Jones on RA chair Hamish McLennan – the first leader to ‘take a stand’ for the game since John O’Neill – as well as Will Skelton and why he doesn’t want to discuss NRL recruits.

Jessica Halloran

NRLNRL

Coach’s $600k research legacy

Paul Green’s legacy is now more than rugby league – his passing has seen a record $600,000 donated to CTE research.

Jessica Halloran

EXCLUSIVESport

PENRITH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 09: Nathan Cleary of the Panthers takes a pass during the round two NRL match between the Penrith Panthers and the South Sydney Rabbitohs at BlueBet Stadium on March 09, 2023 in Penrith, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Cleary, Murray on Rugby Australia’s hit list

The code war between RA and the NRL is set to ratchet up to another level with revelations that Nathan Cleary has emerged as a ‘definite’ target | SEE THE FULL LIST

Jessica Halloran

Sports businessSport

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 07: Raelene Castle speaks during the Women in Sport Aotearoa Captains Lunch at Eden Park on May 07, 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

NZ Rugby to sidestep $550k ‘gender quota’ penalty

NZ Rugby are set to avoid a fine threatened by Raelene Castle, with World Rugby powerbroker and businessman Bart Campbell to step down from the board.

Jessica Halloran

AFLAFL

Joel Selwood, Gary Ablett Snr and Gary Ablett JnrPicture: Instagram

Ablett legal team gears up for fight with AFL

Gary Ablett Sr’s lawyer says her client’s past drug abuse can’t be linked to his brain damage.

Jessica Halloran

court actionAFL

Ablett sues AFL, clubs for years of concussion

AFL great Gary Ablett Sr, who says he has brain damage due to football, is suing the league, and the Geelong and Hawthorn football clubs for negligence.

Jessica Halloran

Sport

NRL R3 Newcastle Knights v Dolphins at McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle. Kalyn Ponga Picture: NRL Photos/Gregg Porteous

Ponga’s Canada trip ‘slap in the face’

A leading concussion expert has questioned Knights star Kalyn Ponga highly publicised decision to travel to Canada when similar brain testing is available here.

Jessica Halloran

Sport

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 10: Australian Rugby League Commission Chairman Peter Vlandys laughs as he speaks to the media during a NRL media opportunity at Rugby League Central on August 10, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Pacific security a whole new ball game

Sport has become a weapon of choice in the fight against China influence in the Pacific.

Jessica Halloran

‘It’s a disgrace’Nation

DAILY TELEGRAPH APRIL 4, 2023. Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty, pictured with his wife Amellia Bonnici leaving the District Court in Sydney . Picture: Jonathan Ng

Guilty again: second crash for ‘Hayne plane’

After 4½ years, three trials and two guilty verdicts, former rugby league superstar and convicted rapist Jarryd Hayne again faces the inside of a jail cell.

Ellie Dudley and Jessica Halloran

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