Meanwhile, the $17″snitz”, salad and chips ($22 with dessert) thrives, with both the Trads and Progs largely oblivious to what flows in part from the Thursday nosh-up that they support.

Mike Sexton visited Suva where, almost a century ago, Charles Kingsford-Smith landed 'The Southern Cross' on his epic flight across the Pacific with Charles Ulm. Mike recounts the enormity of the feat ...

We are all totally devastated by this terrible news. From the moment Col first arrived at the Almanac, as a writer in 2012, and as an editor from soon after, Meryl has been there, someone to whom Col ...

Do you recall anything of the time we spent together? We were inseparable, you were my best friend. Those two years are just a blur, tiny droplets which fleetingly form in my thoughts unbidden.

Michael had booked a beer garden table at the ‘Maid and Magpie’ hotel. However, it was now formally known as ‘The Maid’. Walking around the beer garden there was no booking for them. There was also ...

And just when you thought the NRL’s Grand Final day was the end of the season, along comes the 2026 Rugby League World Cup! Starting next Thursday night and running through until its finals on ...

– after the early powerful efforts of Whyte (which he continued later on), Leniu, who didn’t get on the field for a single minute last week, played a match-turning 24 minute cameo that was utterly ...

Your host for the kukai, Rob Scott, was inspired by attending the annual Footy Almanac Grand Final lunch, bumping into a few of his Collingwood supporting mates who were scattered around the room in ...

The ‘Maynard’, my age, had been stomped on by a horse, several times, sometime earlier, bitten, fell off, bucked off and in high school was kicked in the leg by his horse, so hard, it numbed it, the ...

The last time North Melbourne were playing in a finals series, I was in year 12, beginning my exam preparations and playing the Tenor Saxophone. In those 10 years since the Kangaroos last played ...