THE rot first set in, I reckon, with the invention of the telephone. Before it came along, to bother someone you had to jump on a horse, ride through choking dust and ford swollen rivers to bash on their door.
A NEW-look Wallabies back line, with three newcomers who boast just two minutes of Test experience between them, will be unveiled against Wales in Sydney on May 26.
'WE SEE ourselves as a group of people who want everybody well informed," said the woman who answered the phone at the Pregnancy Help Line one night this week, her voice steady and reassuring. "So I take it you're feeling pretty shocked?" she says.