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I am very pleased to announce that the winner
is Greg Prichard and Chris Barrett, The Sydney

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Morning Herald.
Greg Prichard will be accepting the award.

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Thank you very much, I would like to thank
Chris Barrett who obviously wrote these series

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of stories with me, for the fantastic job
he has done as well as Brad Water and Glenn

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Jackson and the management team from the Sydney
Morning Herald lead by Ian Fuge.

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It is a very important story, it’s still
going now. It will still be going into next

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year as a result of a court case being adjourned
yesterday and I think anyone who knows sport

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and follows cricket for example knows that
this is a very important story.

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I would just lie to close by paying tribute
to the Australian Sports Commission, from

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what I have seen tonight and last year and
in recent years. There are a number of Awards

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processes in terms of journalism going around
but in terms of sport I think the Australian

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Sports Commission gets it better than anyone,
Thanks a lot!