2022 ROSS LIVERMORE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Former Jillaroo, Jo Barrett will deliver the 2022 Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture at QUT, Kelvin Grove on Saturday, May 21. The Channel 9 commentator and Director of Students at Nudgee […]
Former Jillaroo, Jo Barrett will deliver the 2022 Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture at QUT, Kelvin Grove on Saturday, May 21. The Channel 9 commentator and Director of Students at Nudgee […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 30 2021 MONDAY, JULY 26 Former Wynnum-Manly premiership winning halfback, Peter Dawes reckons the Seagulls would have beaten Sydney premiers, Canterbury-Bankstown in […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 23 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 7 WHEN I think of Tim Pickup, the 1972 Second Test between Australia and New Zealand at Lang […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2021 MONDAY, MAY 17 Mitch Brennan was selected for Australia in 1979, but St George told the national selectors he was […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2021 MONDAY, MAY 10 My interview with Gavin Payne on EastsTV attracted 5,000 viewers, according to producer, Darryl Bogan. Brisbane Men […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 1 Tweed Heads Seagulls, a rugby league club which lays claim to being the oldest outside Sydney and […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Noted rugby league administrator, Shane Richardson is one of the driving forces behind the Brisbane Easts’ (Firehawks) […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 EXCLUSIVE. Wallaby Star, Andrew Slack to Switch to Rugby League. Well, it would have been a nice […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Queensland State of Origin rugby league forward, Gavin Cooper announces his retirement. Murgon product, Cooper was one […]
By Greg Shannon, QRL History Committee The QRL would like to pass on sincere condolences to the family of a truly remarkable rugby league identity, former Queensland and Australian player Ken McCaffery who passed away on February 6 at 91 years of age. Ken had a long and […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Instead of flying back into Brisbane today, following a six-week European adventure, my wife, Marie and I […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 7 2020 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 The Queensland Rugby League is searching for a ‘brand’ name for their Residents’ side. The Origin team […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2020 MONDAY, JANUARY 13 Fellow rugby league historian, Greg Mallory tells me former Builders Laborers’ Federation boss, Jack Mundey was a […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 46 2019. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Bush-fire smoke has cleared enough to be able to see Broken Head for the first time, from […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2019 MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 Japan beat Scotland in rugby union’s World Cup overnight, and as a result, The Courier-Mail’s rugby writer, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2019. MONDAY, JULY 22 Rugby league cult hero, giant former Brisbane Norths’ prop, Campbell ‘Zulu’ Dews has agreed to be a […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2019 MONDAY, APRIL 22 A photograph of Wally Lewis, making his Test debut for Australia against France at the Sydney Cricket […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2019 MONDAY, MARCH 11 The proposed Queensland Sports Museum will not get off the ground, chairman, Denis Brennan informs me. The […]