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The Shrine or Remembrance has signed a contract with catering company Peter Rowland Group to host commercial events there.

‘Trampling over the dead’: Shrine to host events under controversial commercial deal

A controversial new agreement will bring commercial events to Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance for the first time. And many veterans are not happy.

  • Hannah Hammoud

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Albert Jacka.

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’: On the eve of battle, Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917, as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front, Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • Peter FitzSimons
The new AFL broadcast rights deal will lead to changes for some viewers from 2025.

How Fox Footy’s ‘Super Saturday’ deal will shape the AFL fixture

The new deal, starting in 2025, gives Fox Footy exclusive broadcast rights on Saturdays for the first eight rounds and will result in delayed coverage on free-to-air.

  • Peter Ryan
Albert Jacka in camp at Gallipoli, around August 1915.

‘Well, I managed to get the buggers, sir’: The daring plan that created a legend

Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient for his actions in Gallipoli when Turkish troops launched an attack on troops dug in at Courtney’s Post.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Sophie Ray, Mick Bainbridge

Frosty silence, then heated texts and an internal complaint: The undoing of the RSL NSW leadership

An internal power struggle at RSL NSW has brought long-standing tensions into the open.

  • Harriet Alexander
Blondie performing at Pandemonium

The text messages that reveal the pandemonium behind a cancelled music festival

The festival made headlines for being “disrespectful”. Now, the organisers are demanding compensation.

  • Harriet Alexander
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RSL NSW president Mick Bainbridge, pictured at the Domain in July, is the subject of an internal complaint.

RSL NSW goes to war … with itself

An external consultant found the RSL NSW board was so dysfunctional it would be difficult for the organisation to support veterans and their families.

  • Harriet Alexander
Commonwealth war graves scorched by wildfires on the Gallipoli peninsula, in Turkey.

Wildfires across Turkey threaten Anzac graves on Gallipoli peninsula

At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915, the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery, where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.

  • Rob Harris
Some clubs derive up to 80 per cent of their revenue from poker machines.

Why this NSW MP says opposition is a ‘Coalition of cowards’ without Perrottet

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says the NSW Coalition waited until Dominic Perrottet had left the building before abandoning his key policy.

  • Alexandra Smith
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Shopping has been banned on Anzac Day. Next stop, turning off the pokies

Two-up would be spared but NSW’s 90,000 “machines of misery” would go dark under an amendment going before parliament on Tuesday.

  • Alexandra Smith

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