The Queensland government’s Olympic legacy strategy aims for a more inclusive community through the power of sports. But more needs to be done to help refugees join in.
- Professor, Gender Equity and Sport, Griffith University
China’s national security law has already disrupted these co-hosted games.
Women have found innovative and powerful ways to cope during the pandemic – largely because official policy has failed them. That must change.
Women represent just 22% of board chairs and 13% of CEOs across more than 60 Australian sporting organisations.
This rough and tumble sport has smashed through gender stereotypes – can it now be a force for social change?
A complex issue requires sensitive techniques.
A parish council’s decision to charge parkrunners for using their parks may seem like a storm in a tea cup – but it’s an important test case.
Sport England has launched This Girl Can – an edgy promotional campaign that seeks to inspire women to challenge cultural assumptions about femininity that prevent them engaging in sport and exercise…
London’s Olympic Velodrome is opening to the public for the first time. The scene of great triumph for Team GB in the London 2012 Olympics, it should welcome droves of budding cyclists who hope to one…
Recent Winter Olympic sporting success raises critical questions about the limits of national campaigns’ ability to translate gold medal “inspiration” into everyday participation for women and girls in…
Australian male sport is facing increasing public scrutiny in relation to ethics, conduct and cultural legitimacy. Our sports media is saturated with reports of drug enhanced desires for speed and strength…
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