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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAANestory Irankunda is 45 minutes late, and I’m starting to worry. Setting up this photo shoot and interview with the rising Socceroos superstar had already felt a bit like watching him play: exhilarating, unpredictable and occasionally chaotic. After weeks of haggling with his minders about the timing, location and logistics, it was only locked in the day prior – and even that brought little comfort, because nobody seemed entirely convinced he wanted to do it or that he would actually turn up.Finally, Irankunda’s white…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAA“While chatting with my teenage grandchildren, I discovered that they haven’t been taught to write script – what we called ‘running writing’ when I was a kid,” laments Gary Nicholson of Carlingford. “They can only print. Can any Column 8-ers involved in education tell me if this is a general development and when and why it began?”“Meccano (C8) lives!” declares 80-year-old Dave Pyett of Maroubra. “I still have most of my set, sadly unplayed with for a while, in my old garage, which is…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe gentle sound of bowls rolling and clicking on the greens at the state’s oldest bowling club has been silenced. Faced with mounting financial losses, the venue has shut its doors after nearly 150 years.Balmain Bowling Club, established in 1880, served its last drinks on Saturday night – the closure of the long-running sporting and community hub raising questions about the future of the prominent inner-west site.The Balmain Bowling Club has closed its doors after almost 150 years in operation.James BrickwoodIn a statement to…

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