BRISBANE: Disgraced former Queensland police commissioner Terry Lewis (pictured above), who has died aged 95, has asked to be buried in a large brown paper bag for old time’s sake.
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SYDNEY: The NRL is expected to announce here today that the Magic Round will be held in Sydney for the next four years as a trial measure before becoming a permanent fixture in the Harbour City from the 2028 season.
The decision will take some of the gloss and excitement of the 2023 Magic Round currently being played out at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, where all eight games of the week’s round are attracting more than 130,000 fans and are tipped to inject $30 million into the south Queensland economy.
NRL CEO Andrew Abdo will say the round, to play out at Accor Stadium (the former Olympic stadium) each May starting in 2024, will be the perfect partner to the 26 other mini-magic rounds played in Sydney each season.
The Queensland Rugby League is expected to give the decision its blessing, if a comment from a senior official is any indication. “The NRL was, is, and will always remain basically a Sydney-based competition so its decisions will always favour that city and that’s as it should be,” said the official who asked not to be named.
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SYDNEY: In a shocking yet admirable confession in a think piece published by ABC News online about the coronation of King Charles 3, Stan Grant has suggested he might be the only Australian not only to have read James Joyce’s Ulysses all the way through but might have actually understood and enjoyed it.
He’s only hinted at that, right, so we’re holding out hope for the poor bastard.
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