Monopoly Documentary – Under The Boardwalk
I represented QLD in the Australian Monopoly Championships in 2010 and appeared in a documentary about the World Championships.
See about 1:58 in the video.
See here for information about the documentary.
Monopoly Champions
An article in Sacred Heart’s Blue and Blue magazine.
Former Adelaide Lawyer Gains the Monopoly
The Today Show – Monopoly
As seen on Channel Nine’s Today Show.
On a Roll
There’s little room for fun and games when the nation’s Monopoly masters meet to decide who’s chairman of the board.
There’s a palpable frisson on the 88th floor of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower. Through floor-to-ceiling windows, the streetscape stretches out to the horizon like a child’s play mat nearly 300m below. Against this auspicious backdrop, eight would-be moguls eye each other warily and contemplate their game plan. Each has come with a singular ambition: to bankrupt their opponents and make their fortune.
Welcome to the 2009 Australian Monopoly Championships. During the next couple of hours, the country’s best Monopoly masters will do battle [...]
High Drama Unfolds in Melbourne Property Crash
Australia’s own sub-prime scenario unfolded with alarming speed and high drama in Melbourne today.
In a matter of minutes, a property portfolio worth millions turned into worthless paper.
Another empire built on leveraged deals and misplaced hope crumbled in a fraction of the time it took to be built.
Homes bought on an impulse for more than they were worth were handed back to the bank for a song.
Dreams were dashed, futures that once flashed brightly crashed spectacularly.
Remarkably, it all happened in an atmosphere of good humour and “better luck next time” resignation.
Which is no more than you might expect at the Australian [...]
9am with David & Kim – Monopoly Olympics
As seen on Channel Nine’s morning program, 9am with David & Kim.
Triple J – Monopoly
Lawyer Heads the Board at Monopoly
Table Tycoon Aims to Take on the World
ANTHONY Jucha’s aim is to bankrupt everyone and build hotels all over London.
The 34-year-old Glebe lawyer has just been crowned Queensland Monopoly champion, beating 50 other Monopoly tragics.
After coming second at the NSW Monopoly Championships on January 10, Mr Jucha decided to fly to Brisbane the next day to contest the Queensland title.
He played three one-hour games with up to five players using new speed dice rules, which propel players ahead.
It was a long time between victories for Mr Jucha, who won the South Australian title aged 17 back in 1991.
What is his strategy?
“I don’t have favourite sites,” he said. [...]
Glebe Local is on a Roll
This Monopoly Knows No Borders
IF you can’t beat `em, go interstate. Anthony Jucha came second in the New South Wales Monopoly Championship, so flew up from Sydney overnight to attempt to go one better.
Which he did, getting crowned Queensland champ at Westfield Garden City on Sunday.
(Southern Star – 14 January 2009)
ABC News – Monopoly Championships
Monopoly Champ
Anthony Jucha, of Marion, on Saturday, became South Australia’s best money-maker, winning the Monopoly Championship State finals. Anthony, 17, will compete in the grand final next Saturday, when Australia’s representative to the 1992 world championships in Berlin will be decided.
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Gonzo Journalism – Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The few times I’ve been to Canberra, I’ve felt drawn to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Australians are an obedient lot and, once in a while, it’s nice to see some ‘un-Australian’ breaking of rules.
So this year, on Australia Day, I decided to leave my de facto and baby at home – for my first night away since our boy’s birth – and camp at the Tent Embassy for its 40th anniversary celebration. For the first time in almost a year, I might get a decent night’s sleep.
I arrived to see TV crews leaving and an angry speaker on stage. I [...]
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Satire – Golden Gavel 2010
My speech in the NSW Young Lawyer’s Golden Gavel public speaking competition in 2010.
Competitors are assigned a topic at random less than 24 hours before the event. My topic was ‘Barristers – without solicitors they’re really just fluff and stuffing’. 500+ lawyers watch the event.
This was the last year I am ‘young’ enough to compete so I went for broke and tried to put on a real show. I also took the opportunity to made fun of: the President of Young Lawyers, the President of the Lawyer Society and the Honourable Justice Bergin Chief Judge in Equity of [...]
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Guerilla Law – complaints about police
I set up my ‘free legal advice’ stall in Glebe. Two young men sat down and said they were sick of being hassled by the police. I told them that the best thing to do would be to avoid the police in question. I also told them how to make a complaint about the police.
I recorded the conversation and it was broadcast on 2SER’s law show ‘Radio Atticus’. You can listen below:
See Radio Atticus at 2SER for the full show.
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Satire – engineers beat lawyers
As the team of lawyers were quick to point out, 11 of the 27 prime ministers of this country have practised law. So how did a team of engineers convince an audience that they, rather than lawyers, would make better politicians, when even Gillard and Abbott both have law degrees?
Try this argument from the engineers’ second speaker, Andrew Pratley: “Australia had only one choice at the election, and that was to elect a lawyer. And what did we do? We rejected them both.”
The inaugural debate between Young Engineers Australia Sydney Division and the Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers was [...]
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Satire – What Makes a Man Bare All?
Anthony’s 2004 Adelaide Fringe debut takes us on a journey that bares all. With musical support from Gary and Rob (and constant interruptions by Michael Hicks), the show features such unusual explorations as:
• why spotted ties send the wrong message
• the rejection letter poem
• the army, cocaine, grenades and me
• why thinking about work can actually increase arousal
• losing your virginity; beware the dark blue ring
• hard up at the puppetry of the penis auditions
• the brighter side of breaking your penis
• a long weekend sleeping out with the homeless
If there is a place in hell for you [...]
