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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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Hobart or Olympics? AOC boss has AFL Tassie bid in crosshairs

Olympic boss Matt Carroll has questioned why the federal government would potentially fund an AFL stadium in Hobart while broke athletes are battling toward Paris 2024 and beyond.

Jessica Halloran

Sport

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 27, 2023: The chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee, Matt Carroll spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Olympics fighting in ‘hunger games’

Olympic boss Matt Carroll has questioned the federal government potentially funding an AFL stadium in Hobart while broke athletes aim for Paris 2024 and beyond.

Jessica Halloran

Rugby UnionRugby Union

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 23: General Manager of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and channel nine commentator Phil Gould looks on before the round four NRL match between the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers at CommBank Stadium on March 23, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Roosters and Rugby Australia take aim at Gould

Sydney Roosters coach has called Phil Gould ‘fearful’ while RA chairman Hamish McLennan says the NRL has an ‘inferiority complex’ and that more players will defect to his sport.

Jessica Halloran and Fatima Kdouh

NRL

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 17: Brandon Smith of the Roosters calls instructions during the round three NRL match between Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs at Allianz Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Rugby boss hits back at NRL ‘cry babies’

Brandon Smith’s jibes at departing Roosters teammate Joseph Suaalii haven’t gone down well, with his comments hitting a nerve with Rugby Australia bosses.

Fatima Kdouh and Jessica Halloran

ExclusiveRugby Union

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 05: Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii of the Roosters takes on the defence during the round one NRL match between the Dolphins and Sydney Roosters at Suncorp Stadium on March 05, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)

RA boss labels NRL rivals as ‘cry babies’

Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan has taunted the NRL critics of his poaching of Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.

Jessica Halloran and Fatima Kdouh

BreakingRugby Union

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 11: Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii of the Roosters watches on during the warm-up before the round two NRL match between the Sydney Roosters and the New Zealand Warriors at Allianz Stadium on March 11, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

‘Welcome back to rugby’: Suaalii signs three-year deal

Rugby Australia locks the NRL’s brightest star into a multimillion-dollar deal to play for the Wallabies through to the 2027 World Cup.

Jessica Halloran

Watershed momentSport

BELGRADE, SERBIA - MARCH 19: Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics looks on during Day Two of the World Athletics Indoor Championships at Belgrade Arena on March 19, 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

World Athletics bans transgender women

Athletics Australia says it ’respects’ the decision by World Athletics in banning transgender athletes from elite women’s competition, which will include next year’s Paris Olympics.

Jessica Halloran and Jacquelin Magnay

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Amanda and Paul Green on Pallarenda Beach in Townsville

NRL great’s widow backs brain scheme

The wife of deceased rugby league star Paul Green, who was found to have a ‘severe’ form of CTE post-mortem, has called on NRL leaders to provide brain scans for former footballers.

Jessica Halloran

AnalysisNRL

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 17: Hame Sele of the Rabbitohs lays on the ground after a tackle during the round three NRL match between Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs at Allianz Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

One decision NRL owes its warhorses

The NRL’s new stance on concussion is welcomed but there is one other reform they must implement immediately.

Jessica Halloran

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17/3/23: Mark 'Spudd' Carroll in his gym in Woolloomooloo. He reveals for the first time his CTE diagnosis and mental health battles. John Feder/The Australian.

‘My brain was ticking like a bomb’: Spudd’s CTE diagnosis

Rugby league hard man Mark ‘Spudd’ Carroll opens up for the first time on his CTE diagnosis, revealing before he was diagnosed he ‘dreamt’ of driving his car into a tree or an oncoming semi-trailer.

Jessica Halloran

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