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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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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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Australian Rugby League Commission Chairman Peter V'landys is seen during a press conference at Penrith Panthers Leagues Club in Penrith, NSW, Thursday, October 31, 2019. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

‘No interest’ in CEO job from V’landys

ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys is adamant he does not want Todd Greenberg’s job.

Jessica Halloran

Olympics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: Kyle Chalmers wins the Men's 50 Metre Freestyle event during the 2019 Australian World Championship Swimming Trials at Brisbane Aquatic Centre on June 14, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)

AOC tracks athletes amid coronavirus threat

The Australian Olympic Committee and the Australian Institute of Sport are preparing a “matrix” to track hundreds of athletes’ movements in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

Jessica Halloran

coronavirusOlympics

The New Tokyo Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, is seen from a viewing area in Tokyo on February 8, 2020. - Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers said February 6 the Games would

Disruption threat to Games is worst in 80 years

The Olympics are facing their greatest threat since World War II but organisers are refusing to buckle in the face of coronavirus.

Jessica Halloran

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