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Garry Linnell

Garry Linnell is a Fairfax Media columnist and the co-presenter of the 2UE Breakfast Show.

"Oh television, you've come back into my life again".

An old flame flickers again

Who said romance dies as you grow older? Here I sit, deep in the gnarly grip of middle age only to find an old flame back in my life, rekindling all that old magic.

In the next 40 years, Australians receiving aged care services will explode by more than 250 per cent.

Who really wants to live forever?

No wonder they call it God's waiting room. Even He seems a little impatient today. Thunder beats a drum solo on the ceilings, black clouds draw a curtain on the light.  And in the dining room on this sultry, stormy Sydney afternoon, the residents of an aged care nursing home are enduring the greatest trial life imposes on the old.

Using a phone illegally while driving causes more fatal crashes in NSW than not wearing a seatbelt.

It's undeniable: mobile phones are killing us

Take your hand off it for a moment. Please. Hard to do, I know. The damn thing is the bane of my existence as well. It's like being the better half of an evil siamese twin. No matter where you go it's always with you, nagging, nudging, distracting and, even worse, playing with your mind.

More than one in three Australians admit to using cannabis.

The US could go up in smoke - but not because of Trump

In the middle of next week millions of Americans will front the ballot box and make a decision that, depending on your point of view, will leave their nation on course to become a complete smoking ruin or a richer and far more relaxed place.

Staged? Of course not. But try to tell that to some people.

Conspiracy Land shows we're more gullible than ever

In March 1907, Dr Frank Seccord and third-year student Andrew Prentice from the Sydney University history department set out on a horse and cart and headed west through the Blue Mountains. It took them seven brutal weeks travelling through harsh terrain before they finally settled camp at Capertee, a small farming village north of Lithgow.