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Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist and columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald.

Heartbreak in Beirut: Photographs taken by Geraghty during her visit with Matthew Knott to Lebanon in 2024.

Meet the woman who fights to go into war zones

The Herald’s chief photographer Kate Geraghty is an award-winning war correspondent: her mission is to put a human face to the deadly realities of war.

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Sid Harvey

The Waratahs had the Blues beat. Then they beat themselves

By my count, there were ten times the Waratahs should have scored, only to blow their chance in ever more inventive ways.

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Sam Kerr and Caitlin Foord celebrate the win.

The only sports star I’ve seen who could rival Sam Kerr’s supernatural sense of timing

Her goal in the Asian Cup semi-final against China again demonstrated the other-worldly quality that sets the Matildas striker apart from mere mortals.

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke with the five Iranian soccer players who were granted visas.

‘Helping Iranian sporting women escape the very country you’re helping to bomb is a good look’

Craig Foster says the Australian government did the right thing by the Iranian footballers, but in human rights, he says, there is no such thing as a victory lap.

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Max Jorgensen

Attn Waratahs: Rugby is a team game. So all 14 of you, just give the ball to Jorgo...

Desperate measures are needed after NSW’s thrashing by the Hurricanes last weekend. I humbly offer my coaching talents to assist Dan McKellar and Co.

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Zac Lomax.

Why wouldn’t Zac Lomax want to play a truly world game?

The best of times continued on Monday when Rugby Australia signed Zac Lomax, prompting hilarious carry-on by the denizens of league. They were most incensed by just three words Lomax threw out.

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Kylie and Jackie O

I gave Kyle and Jackie O their big break. They were superb, but I know why they imploded

Craig Bruce discovered the now-warring duo in 2004 and put them on the air. The rest is history.

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Dennis Cometti’s commentary career spanned 51 years on TV and radio.

Vale, Dennis, the fans will never forget your Cometti-isms

I have been inundated by readers sending me their favourite moments from the late, great AFL commentator Dennis Cometti. So here they are.

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Former commentator Denis Cometti poses for a photo in the commentary booth at Etihad Stadium on June 5, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. Cometti is retiring at the end of the 2016 AFL season. Photo by Pat Scala

Dennis Cometti cracked many famous jokes, but there’s only one I would chisel on his tombstone

Just 76 years old, Dennis Cometti was so loved, so full of life. Has there been a more widely loved sports commentator in the history of our country?

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Clover Moore

Clover’s vision: Town Hall Square will be George Street on steroids

According to Sydney’s lord mayor, the new Town Hall Square will transform the city. There’s just one obstacle in the way.

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