Luke McIlveen
Luke McIlveen is chief-of-staff of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He presides over Australia’s most chaotic newsdesk and disguises a total lack of organisation under the need to “stay flexible”. He has worked in newspapers for 13 years and cannot understand what the internet has to offer apart from compromising Facebook pictures he might be able to lift for tomorrow’s front page. His chief interests are social justice, boxing, Jennifer Hawkins and salt and vinegar chips (thin sliced).
Articles by Luke McIlveen
Green wins with courage
What the hell happened? Like the other 15,000 fight fans at Acer Arena last night, I’m still trying to work…... Read more
Abusing us park exercisers is a lazy national sport
SO there we were performing a static hold in the push-up position down at the local park when the Dog…... Read more
Wayne Carey: Your typical angry white male
Before Ben Cousins, there was Wayne Carey. The full forward from Wagga became the King of North Melbourne and the…... Read more
All hail the Wild Man of golf
SO Melbourne gets Tiger Woods. So what? Sydney got Long John Daly and, on behalf of this city of drunken…... Read more
October, it’s Hell on earth for sports lovers
APRIL is the cruelest month, old T.S Eliot used to say, but where does that leave October? No league, no…... Read more
It had its moments, but the NRL final was a snore
JARRYD Hayne brought two left boots to the Grand Final. Has there ever been a more tragic footy omen? The…... Read more
Eight things the Eels should do, to win by 8
Parra can win this. All the predictions of Melbourne’s class overwhelming the baby Eels will count for nought when the…... Read more
Shaggy-haired old-timer gives everything to game
THOUGHT I might wander out to ANZZZZZ Stadium tonight for the Parra v Dogs game. Who knows? Maybe 70,000 screaming…... Read more
Sparring in the carpark with world champ Danny Green
A funny thing happened on the way out of the glamorous Punch TV studios yesterday. As we stood in the…... Read more
The real awards for sporting achievement in 2009
SEPTEMBER comes with certain guarantees – birdsong in the early dawn, the smell of jasmine on the warm breeze and…... Read more
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Up to the minute Twitter chatter
Am in SA all week for election campaign. Keen to hear from SA tweeters on whether Mike Rann can or should win.
Advertiser has great online coverage of SA election. Live interview with Michelle Chantelois at 12noon at http://www.adelaidenow.com.au
Michelle Chantelois will be interviewed live on adelaidenow.com.au at 12.30pm EDT. Hang on to your hats - might be more trouble for Rann
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Is this the greatest ever send-up of 24-hour news? Warning: contains strong language and hilarity. From… Read more
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