Jordan Baker

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

Rogan’s voice can be heard in Sydney boys’ boarding schools, in the luxury cars of chief executives, and in gardens of home-builders as they chip away at DIY renovations. “He’s smart, and has interesting guests,” says one lawyer. LoadingA Sydney-based chief executive listens regularly. “If you go to the pub with your mates and shoot the shit for a few hours, the conversation goes from the footy to taxes to ‘did you hear about the crazy celebrity?’” he says, also on the condition of anonymity.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Screen time among Australian primary schoolers has ballooned to six-and-a-half hours a day, according to new research that also finds one in ten students uses their smartphone at problematic levels. The study of students in years four to eight found that average daily screen time for junior high schoolers was nine hours a day.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There’s a trace of John Shakespeare in all his caricatures. “Even when he’s drawing all the worst pollies, there’s a warmth – there’s something that reminds you of him,” says his close friend and fellow artist, Simon Letch. “There’s a softness straight away, in the eyes. You feel drawn to them. They’re lovable.”Cathy Wilcox, his long-time Herald colleague, sees that too.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tempers were running high at the Richmond greyhound track. A trainer and his partner were unhappy with a racing steward’s direction, and they made their displeasure known in what was described by a witness as “terribly insulting language”.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For nine months, Jennifer McCloy carried a baby for her best friend. Angus wasn’t biologically hers, but after multiple miscarriages, a volunteer surrogate was the only way her friend could become a mother. McCloy handed Angus to his parents the moment he was born, but for the next year, until the required adoption paperwork could be processed, she had to remain his legal guardian.