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The FFA, headed by Steven Lowy, is currently beset by an array of challenges to its control of football in Australia. AAP/Lukas Coch

August 9, 2017

Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football’s growth in Australia

Roy Hay, Deakin University

It’s worth defending the principle that the national governing body, not the clubs and not the states, should run football in Australia.

Billionaire Frank Lowy was done like a dinner in the shark-infested waters of international football, led by Sepp Blatter (right). EPA/Walter Bierri

November 17, 2015

The player played: Frank Lowy and Australia’s failed World Cup bid

David Rowe, Western Sydney University

Despite Australia squandering $43 million on a failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Lowy football dynasty lives on.

The great Australian success story of Frank Lowy and many others like him would not have happened had Australia not accepted penniless refugees. AAP/Dean Lewins

May 7, 2015

Australia should not auction off migrant places to highest bidders

Jock Collins, University of Technology Sydney

The problem with auctioning immigration places is that it puts the focus on short-term revenue-raising, rather than immigration’s more important medium- to long-term nation-building role.

Westfield Retail Trust’s chairman Richard Warburton deferred a vote on controversial plans to spin off the group. AAP/Dan Himbrechts

June 4, 2014

Westfield’s stoush should shine light on tax paid by property trusts

Roman Lanis, University of Technology Sydney and Ross McClure, University of Technology Sydney

Reports of the Westfield Group’s attempts to push through a A$15 billion restructure - complete with a boisterous showdown last Thursday - have mostly concentrated around the effect of the deal on its…

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