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Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

The crowning moment of the finals so far is supposed to come next weekend when the Bulldogs and Panthers meet in front of 70,000 fans. Try beating...

14.09.2025 9

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

The crowning moment of the finals so far is supposed to come next weekend when the Bulldogs and Panthers meet in front of 70,000 fans. Try beating...

14.09.2025 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

The crowning moment of the finals so far is supposed to come next weekend when the Bulldogs and Panthers meet in front of 70,000 fans. Try beating...

14.09.2025 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

Reece, Ricky, Madge, and buses ... And they say nothing fun happens in Canberra

The crowning moment of the finals so far is supposed to come next weekend when the Bulldogs and Panthers meet in front of 70,000 fans. Try beating...

14.09.2025 1

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

What do we know about Greek shipping billionaire Evangelos Marinakis? Which song lyrics did he write, who did he spit at, and why is he suing Benjamin...

14.09.2025 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

What do we know about Greek shipping billionaire Evangelos Marinakis? Which song lyrics did he write, who did he spit at, and why is he suing Benjamin...

14.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

What do we know about Greek shipping billionaire Evangelos Marinakis? Which song lyrics did he write, who did he spit at, and why is he suing Benjamin...

14.09.2025 10

The Age

Emma Kemp

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

Drug-smuggling, match-fixing scandals … and a pop song: who is Ange’s new boss?

What do we know about Greek shipping billionaire Evangelos Marinakis? Which song lyrics did he write, who did he spit at, and why is he suing Benjamin...

14.09.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

To say the NRL finals series launch was akin to Shakespeare’s soliloquies would be to liken toilet humour to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it did...

08.09.2025 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

To say the NRL finals series launch was akin to Shakespeare’s soliloquies would be to liken toilet humour to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it did...

08.09.2025 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

To say the NRL finals series launch was akin to Shakespeare’s soliloquies would be to liken toilet humour to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it did...

08.09.2025 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

To say the NRL finals series launch was akin to Shakespeare’s soliloquies would be to liken toilet humour to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it did...

08.09.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Amid last week’s Brandon Smith-related controversy, it was impossible not to see Trent Robinson standing atop the mount, arms outstretched,...

05.09.2025 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Amid last week’s Brandon Smith-related controversy, it was impossible not to see Trent Robinson standing atop the mount, arms outstretched,...

05.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Amid last week’s Brandon Smith-related controversy, it was impossible not to see Trent Robinson standing atop the mount, arms outstretched,...

05.09.2025 10

The Age

Emma Kemp

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Robbo the Redeemer: How coach brings out the best in his Roosters flock

Amid last week’s Brandon Smith-related controversy, it was impossible not to see Trent Robinson standing atop the mount, arms outstretched,...

05.09.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

We keep being told the scripts couldn’t be written, but someone in rugby league keeps writing them. Round 26 threw up a vintage collection.

29.08.2025 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

We keep being told the scripts couldn’t be written, but someone in rugby league keeps writing them. Round 26 threw up a vintage collection.

29.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

We keep being told the scripts couldn’t be written, but someone in rugby league keeps writing them. Round 26 threw up a vintage collection.

29.08.2025 10

The Age

Emma Kemp

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

We keep being told the scripts couldn’t be written, but someone in rugby league keeps writing them. Round 26 threw up a vintage collection.

29.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 6

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 8

The Age

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 3

WA Today

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 2

The Age

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

The Age

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 9

The Age

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

The Age

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

The Age

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp