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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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Olympics

Disease expert says Olympics must be stopped

The IOC is coming under more pressure to cancel the Olympics, with an infectious disease expert saying it cannot proceed as planned.

Jessica Halloran

Olympics

Australia Olympic Comittee (AOC) President John Coates speaks during the launch of Dean Barton-Smith's book 'Think Again' in Sydney, Wednesday, February 19, 2020. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Tokyo will go ahead, says Coates

Australian Olympic boss John Coates will isolate for two weeks after meeting with IOC president Thomas Bach

Jessica Halloran

exclusiveAFL

PLEASE CHECK WITH DT SPORT BEFORE USE - Feature on the GWS Giants first session back for the whole squad after being last seasons Grand Finalists. Toby Greene. Picture. Phil Hillyard

Firebrand Toby’s search for atonement

Toby Greene knows fans don’t like him. But now he says he wants to earn the respect of the football world.

Jessica Halloran

NRL

A Raiders fan wears a mask as he applauds a try during the Round One NRL match between Canberra Raiders and Gold Coast Titans at GIO Stadium in Canberra, Friday, March 13, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Last hurrah for NRL crowds

This weekend is the last chance for National Rugby League fans to watch football live until COVID-19 is contained.

Jessica Halloran

NRLNRL

Jayden Okunbor will make his NRL debut for the Bulldogs this season. Picture: David Swift.

Season tarnished with schoolgirl sex scandal

The messages a Bulldogs player sent to a schoolgirl demonstrate a footballer blind to the immoral, predatory move he was making.

Jessica Halloran

ExclusiveNRL

Bulldogs players Jayden Okunbor and Corey Harawira-Naera have been provisionally suspended by the NRL.

Teacher involved in Bulldogs sex scandal

Fresh details have emerged in the NRL sex scandal, as the club misses out on a $2m sponsorship deal.

Brent Read and Jessica Halloran

Nation

(L to R) Tully Rasmussen, 12, Stephanie Davies, 12, Grace Conroy, 12 and Cara Webb, 12, pictured on SydneyÕs northern beaches on Friday 6th March 2020. Picture: Nikki Short

Fielding million-dollar dreams

When you invest in and develop women and girls equally with men, success follows, says Elizabeth Broderick.

Jessica Halloran

Sport

Building a road map to equality

Women’s sport benefactor Susan Alberti hopes that in five years the boundaries holding back females in sport will have disappeared.

Jessica Halloran

exclusiveSport

*APAC Sports Pictures of the Week - 2020, February 17* SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 13: The Matildas celebrate a Emily van Egmond goal during the Women's Olympic Football Tournament Qualifier between Australia and China PR at Bankwest Stadium on February 13, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)

Drive for equality gaining traction

Australian sporting organisations are world leaders in gender parity, but there is still a long way to go.

Jessica Halloran

EXCLUSIVENation

Australian Sports Commission Acting Chief Executive Officer Robert Dalton appears at a Senate inquiry into the sports rorts affair at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 27, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Athletes face cuts, leaders party on

Sport Australia executives are preparing celebratory functions for sports board members just weeks after slashing funding for sports.

Jacquelin Magnay and Jessica Halloran

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