Was She Really A Pushover?

IN Edinburgh Gardens, in the middle of a wide circular garden bed, stands a white stone pedestal with nothing at its peak. The pedestal is big, easily two metres tall and at least 1.5 metres square at its base: whatever it was designed to support must have been huge. But now, without its statue, the pedestal looks naked. It stands amid avenues of elm trees that, at this time of year, look equally apocalyptical and denuded. The garden bed from which the pedestal rises is barren of plants but for a ...

Legs Of Legend Rose Still Impress

"I ALWAYS said he had the best legs in the league," said an emotional Elsie Rose yesterday as the cloth fell from the bronze statue of her late husband, Collingwood legend Bob Rose.

Dogs Plan To Do Something Special For Their 'granty'

THERE is a statue of the great E.J. Whitten at the entrance to the ground that bears his name, while the outer wing at Footscray was dubbed "the Doug Hawkins Wing" in the course of Dougie's 329 games for the Bulldogs.

Peter, Peter, The Word Eater

SOME of Peter Costello's sympathisers have complained in recent months that the Treasurer was sick of being a plinth, a mere platform to support the statue of the great leader, John Howard.