Consciousness-raising is a laudable goal for the AFL, but on race and gender issues, it needs to lead to clear actions, not just words.
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We might think of sporting statues commemorating great players. But three new statues are showing us they can commemorate great cultural moments, too.
The AFLW has come a long way in a short time. But amid calls for even faster expansion, more games and a longer season, it pays to remember that in footy you shouldn’t go too hard, too early.
Online trolling is a workplace health and safety issue. The AFL must expose and sanction those responsible – anything less would not only be morally debatable, but also legally questionable.
It is now time for fans and administrators to put their money where their mouths are and support women’s sport in meaningful ways.
The league’s new policy for transgender footballers is contradictory and places an unfair burden on athletes to track testosterone levels and performance results over a two-year period.
Despite participation rates in women’s sport growing exponentially in recent years, the number of women in coaching positions has remained frustratingly stagnant.
Elite female athletes are leaving their chosen sport to pursue a career in AFLW. But what skills do they possess that allow them to be successful footballers with limited AFL experience?
The decision to exclude transgender woman Hannah Mouncey from the AFLW may breach anti-discrimination law, and contradicts the AFL’s public position of embracing diversity and inclusivity.
Football has changed dramatically in the 35 years since Richmond last had a chance at the Grand Final. But while footy is now ‘an industry’, the arrival of the first women’s league is to be celebrated.
There has so far been scant understanding of – or credit given to – the historical background to the creation of the AFL women’s league.
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement, La Trobe University
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