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Bloody hell - those Queenslanders have done it again

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

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Bloody hell - those Queenslanders have done it again

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author June 18, 2025 — 10.33pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Those bloody Queenslanders!Honestly. You could poison them, drive a stake through their heart, put them in a coffin, bury them six foot under, be dancing on their graves ... and they’d still be a chance of winning anyway. For that was precisely the situation in this Origin II match in Perth, and it has bloody well happened again.
Bridget has Down Syndrome and is non-verbal, but still expresses herself Vividly

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The work of artist Bridget Kelly, who has Down Syndrome and is mostly non-verbal, received a strong response at the Vivid Festival this year. Bridget communicates by expression, limited words and writing. I interviewed her by text with the help of her sister, Morag. Fitz: Bridget, congratulations on your art. When did you take it up?
Bridget has Down Syndrome and is non-verbal, but still expresses herself Vividly

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

BK: They were so excited and happy for me. They told me they were really proud of me. I am the first (and probably last) person in my family to have my artwork on a building. I was really happy because I love doing art and I got to show it to lots of people. Fitz: How did you feel to gaze upon your work up on that big building on Saturday night and have everybody admire it? And did some of them say things to you? BK: It felt really good.
Is this the end of free-to-air TV? TV veteran Peter Meakin thinks so

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Is this the end of free-to-air TV? A veteran weighs inWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Columnist and author June 15, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Farewell Johnny Shakespeare – a great artist, an even better man

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author June 14, 2025 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This has been a very sad week for those of us at the Herald and, from your touching reaction, many readers, too. It was the week we lost the long-time graphic artist for this column, Johnny Shakespeare.
Why Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece has a big crush on Sydney

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author June 8, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The new Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nick Reece made news this week for, extraordinarily, saying admiring things about Sydney. I talked to him on Wednesday. Fitz: Thanks for your time, lord mayor and … how far you’ve come, Nick.
Shame on those who whip up hate against trans athletes for clicks and votes

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

“We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.”Brava, brava, brava. What decency. And what a wonderful stand to take.
Peter FitzSimons interview with NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley on drugs, strip searches and age of criminal responsibility

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Just say ‘no’: How Sydney’s drug habits are fuelling the gangland warsWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Columnist and author June 1, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Yasmin Catley has been NSW police minister since the Chris Minns Labor government came to power 2½ years ago. I spoke to her on Thursday.
Phil Gould, it’s time for you stop the blame game

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author May 31, 2025 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Phil Gould thing? So many points, so little time. The first one is: I TOLD yers! And I really did, in this very space. Back in April, when the whole Lachlan Galvin imbroglio blew up at the Tigers, Gould very publicly said: “We are not involved in the Lachlan Galvin discussion and we won’t be involved in the Lachlan Galvin discussion.