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Hannah Kennelly

Hannah Kennelly

Hannah Kennelly is an award-winning sports reporter and Formula 1 writer at The Age.

Phoenix is run by 2000 Essendon premiership star Scott Lucas.

Management company run by premiership hero fined

Phoenix Management, the player agency run by Essendon premiership hero Scott Lucas, has been fined for breaching rules relating to young players.

  • Andrew Wu, Peter Ryan and Hannah Kennelly

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Kyneton Women’s Football Club, now known as the Wedge-Tailed Eagles.

AFL Victoria drops investigation into ‘gender weirdness’ comment

The alleged message followed a long dispute between the Kyneton women’s team and the Riddell District Football Netball League, after the women’s side defected from Kyneton Football Netball Club last year.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Oscar Piastri talks to other drivers in Shanghai.

China was Piastri’s chance to start anew. Then disaster struck again

Two races into 2026, McLaren’s dominance of last season is a distant memory. They are no longer the frontrunners, and there’s now a five-week gap in the race schedule for them to get things right.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Scott Pendlebury has been offered a one-match ban.

Pendlebury facing first ban after 427 AFL matches; Petracca a force again for Suns

After an extraordinary 427 games, Collingwood veteran Scott Pendlebury has been served a career-first, one-match suspension for an incident during Saturday night’s loss to Adelaide.

  • Hannah Kennelly and Scott Spits
Oscar Piastri in Shanghai

Piastri’s season goes from bad to worse in China; Mercedes prodigy Kimi Antonelli wins maiden GP

After crashing out of his home grand prix, the Australian’s bad luck continues after car issues in Shanghai. He and his teammate Norris were ruled out of the Chinese Grand Prix before it had begun.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Former Essendon footballer Dyson Heppell

Dyson Heppell went out for beers with teammates. What he did next was ‘bizarre behaviour’

Former Essendon captain Dyson Heppell, AFLW champion Erin Phillips and netballer Amy Parmenter describe their experiences with disordered eating.

  • Hannah Kennelly
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Oscar Piastri after his race day reached a nightmare end.

Australian Grand Prix as it happened: Piastri breaks down his gut-wrenching crash as attention turns to Shanghai

Recap all the news, action and talking points from the season’s first Formula 1 grand prix from Albert Park.

  • Russell Bennett, Scott Spits, Hannah Kennelly, Matthew Clayton and Selma Milovanovic
Piastri crashes out during warm-up of the 2026 Australian Grand Prix.

‘The disappointment is even greater’: Hometown curse continues as Russell triumphs amid the carnage

A crestfallen Oscar Piastri apologised to fans who turned up hoping to see an Australian on the podium for the first time in the event’s 30-year history at Albert Park.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Lauren Arnell and her wife Lexie Edwards with their daughter Marlie.

Lauren stepped down from one of footy’s biggest jobs to be present for her family. She stands by her choice

The former Port Adelaide AFLW coach worries her decision to step away will be perceived as an admission that women “can’t do all the things”. It’s not.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Oscar Piastri and the rest of the F1 grid were given a wake-up call by a resurgent Mercedes.

‘We got blown out of the water’: Piastri to start home race from fifth as Mercedes unleash their true pace

Australian Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday at Albert Park – low fuel, one lap, gloves off, sandbags discarded – was where F1’s annual phoney war was set to stop.

  • Matthew Clayton and Hannah Kennelly