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The Daily Telegraph

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How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

At my old high school, in the 1990s, there wasn’t a single blade of grass. Year 11 had a patch of dust that perhaps once hosted plant life. There...

06.01.2025 2

WA Today

Jordan Baker

How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

At my old high school, in the 1990s, there wasn’t a single blade of grass. Year 11 had a patch of dust that perhaps once hosted plant life. There...

06.01.2025 9

The Age

Jordan Baker

How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

At my old high school, in the 1990s, there wasn’t a single blade of grass. Year 11 had a patch of dust that perhaps once hosted plant life. There...

06.01.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker

How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

At my old high school, in the 1990s, there wasn’t a single blade of grass. Year 11 had a patch of dust that perhaps once hosted plant life. There...

06.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

I was once team Raygun. After her heavy-handed legal threats, no more

From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance didn’t...

18.12.2024 3

WA Today

Jordan Baker

I was once team Raygun. After her heavy-handed legal threats, no more

From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance didn’t...

18.12.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker

I was once team Raygun. After her heavy-handed legal threats, no more

From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance didn’t...

18.12.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

I was once team Raygun. After her heavy-handed legal threats, no more

From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance didn’t...

18.12.2024 8

The Age

Jordan Baker

The moment that cracked radio tough guy Ray Hadley

Ray Hadley, Sydney’s longest-surviving shock jock, is best known for his stridently delivered opinions, ability to strike fear into politicians’...

13.12.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

‘We won’t be intimidated’: In Sydney’s eastern suburbs, there is fear, shock and defiance

Michelle Gold’s children peered out of the window during breakfast and saw police and cameras swarming into a nearby street. “Oh look, Mum, they’re...

11.12.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

I spent a night in a resort next to a drug rehab and had to leave in a hurry

Grey clouds hung low, threatening rain, as my car bounced along a dirt road to a riverside hamlet south of Port Stephens. I followed broken signs...

08.12.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

Feared by politicians, loved by listeners: now it’s time for Ray Hadley’s mic-drop

As Ray Hadley was attempting a career switch from auctioneer to race-caller in the early 1980s, he drove taxis to make ends meet. One night he...

07.11.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

Latest St Paul’s scandal shows how quickly the proverbial car can hurtle out of control

Warning: Graphic content For decades, the Salisbury Bar was the toxic heart of St Paul’s College. It was where schoolboy tribalism and entitlement...

31.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

Public schools ‘killing off sport’ as private school facilities grow

Scots College has an altitude training facility for its sports teams. Shore has underwater cameras in its pool. Cranbrook has four tennis courts...

03.09.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town

Australia’s Keegan Palmer couldn’t work out what was most exciting. Meeting rapper Snoop Dogg on the deck. Earning high praise from skateboarding...

08.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jordan Baker

They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town

Australia’s Keegan Palmer couldn’t work out what was most exciting. Meeting rapper Snoop Dogg on the deck. Earning high praise from skateboarding...

08.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town

Australia’s Keegan Palmer couldn’t work out what was most exciting. Meeting rapper Snoop Dogg on the deck. Earning high praise from skateboarding...

08.08.2024 3

The Age

Jordan Baker

They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town

Australia’s Keegan Palmer couldn’t work out what was most exciting. Meeting rapper Snoop Dogg on the deck. Earning high praise from skateboarding...

08.08.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker

If you blinked – or slept – you’d have missed it. And it was a ‘wild, wild feeling’

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mark it down in the record books. August 7, 2024, was the greatest day at the most...

08.08.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker

If you blinked – or slept – you’d have missed it. And it was a ‘wild, wild feeling’

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mark it down in the record books. August 7, 2024, was the greatest day at the most...

08.08.2024 4

The Age

Jordan Baker

The controversial decision and the Australian legend that crushed the Hockeyroos

A controversial goal has ended Australia’s hockey hopes in Paris and left a bitter aftertaste for the Hockeyroos, who were knocked out of the...

05.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jordan Baker

The controversial decision and the Australian legend that crushed the Hockeyroos

A controversial goal has ended Australia’s hockey hopes in Paris and left a bitter aftertaste for the Hockeyroos, who were knocked out of the...

05.08.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker

The Olympics are to blame for a vicious culture war – and three women are its casualties

For all her muscular strength, Lin Yu-ting cut a vulnerable figure in the Olympic boxing ring. Her headgear can soften the physical jabs, but...

03.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jordan Baker

The Olympics are to blame for a vicious culture war – and three women are its casualties

For all her muscular strength, Lin Yu-ting cut a vulnerable figure in the Olympic boxing ring. Her headgear can soften the physical jabs, but...

03.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jordan Baker

The Olympics are to blame for a vicious culture war – and three women are its casualties

For all her muscular strength, Lin Yu-ting cut a vulnerable figure in the Olympic boxing ring. Her headgear can soften the physical jabs, but...

03.08.2024 1

The Age

Jordan Baker

The Olympics are to blame for a vicious culture war – and three women are its casualties

For all her muscular strength, Lin Yu-ting cut a vulnerable figure in the Olympic boxing ring. Her headgear can soften the physical jabs, but...

03.08.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Jordan Baker