Amazing what gets forgiven/forgotten

That’s a good idea. The death of local
papers has been really bad for the ecosystem. Also left largely unwatched the level of government that is probably the most corrupt

It really does. It needs an ecosystem of a big enough reporting staff, and an outlet willing to take the risk to do it. Only a few outlets do it at scale in my view; old Fairfax papers and ABC. Legal costs/risk a big part of it.

Some people doing v good work as solo independent journos or part of small teams. But it’s so precarious and mostly lacks reach/impact. The reality is you still need scale and lot of money to do consistent public interest journalism

I’ve been to a lot of clubs the last few years. Nothing beats the cevapi the Albanians do at Dandenong Thunder. A 10/10

Heidelberg souvas I’d give a 6/10. The team can beat half the A-League but could learn something from Northcote on souvas

That should be flare - but there was some flair on the ball too!