Fifties Articles

The Quiz

1. Which cricketer has played a Test match alongside all 14 of his country's wicketkeepers?2. Before today's Test match, who was the last player from NSW to make his Test debut at the SCG?3. Who is the only man to captain two Test teams at the SCG?4. Who are the..read more

Why Wait To Have Work Done?

Today, women are opting for some "cosmetic enhancement" at a younger age, reports LISA WACHSMUTH. And the economic downturn hasn't stopped them either. It used to be you'd wait till your fifties or older to have "work" done; now women in their twenties are having a spot of cosmetic enhancement.

Haus Style

MELBOURNE has always been a town in love with retro. In bars it has been about channelling the fairly recent past. Fifties lampshades, '60s curves, '70s furniture, '80s tunes and '90s excess are all familiar motifs. For barflies it seems that the past is another country, one in which occasionally..read more

It's A Crime: How Footy Heroes Go Bad

IT WAS not the sort of footy final Garry Sullivan was used to. He had played rugby league for Australia but in 1999 Sullivan led the Over Fifties into battle with the Young Bloods for the Borallon Jail Cup in Queensland.

Fifties Cricketers Caught A Glimpse Of Reality

"I THINK one thing that a lot of people overlook is that we are not playing cricket in the 1950s, and a lot of people, I think, are still living in the 1950s," Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting said recently, and it's an interesting assessment.