SOCIETY: AFL
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One-sport Wonders
Malcolm Knox
It’s the type of dewy summer morning when you can be sunburnt by 8 am. On the cricket field, 10 year olds in whites are hoping the hard...
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Masters of the Universe?: The Culture of the AFL
The AFL has taken a leadership position on the behaviour of young sportsmen. They’ve also tackled the role of women in AFL, Indigenous...
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SOCIETY
Caught in the Game: The Rise of the Sports Betting Industry
Jonathan Horn
Like his brother, Reverend Tim Costello is an Essendon supporter. He was watching the game on television and it left a sour taste. “There’s...
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SOCIETY
Sex, footy and scandal. Anna Krien and Tony Wilson
In the April 2011 issue of The Monthly , Anna Krien wrote an article about the scandal that engulfed the AFL community, involving 16-year-...
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SOCIETY
Out of Bounds: Sex and the AFL
Anna Krien
Proclaiming to be speaking on behalf of all women mistreated by footballers, she had in January attended St Kilda’s first training session...
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The culture of AFL football. Andrew Demetriou talks to Tim Lane (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Presented by the Ideas and Society Program at La Trobe University, AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou speaks to one of the game's...
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The culture of AFL football. Andrew Demetriou talks to Tim Lane
Part 1 | Part 2Presented by the Ideas and Society Program at La Trobe University, AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou speaks to one of the game's most...
More ...Comment: Public Goods & Pipe Organs
John Hirst
If a town hall has an organ should it also have an official town-hall organist? I thought I took a wide interest in public affairs but...
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Comment: An Indigenous Game
John Hirst
Aboriginal people make up 2% of the population and 10% of footballers in the Australian Football League. As anyone who has seen them in...
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SOCIETY
Repo Man
Craig Sherborne
You might have missed it a few months ago, this amusing aside in the daily news: during the auction of a flash rural property in the old-...
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SOCIETY
What a Pratt
James Kirby
The woman on the radio had called to complain. "I want to talk about Richard Pratt," she said. "I don't really understand what he did. But...
More ...The Greater Glory
Malcolm Knox
Paradise is once again at hand for the persecuted tribe of Australian soccer, or ‘The One True Football’. This month, the Socceroos’...
More ...The War on Drugs
Tim Lane
In one of the more conspicuous poacher-to-gamekeeper transformations of recent times, former AFL Players’ Association head Andrew Demetriou...
More ...The Outsider: Now Who’s ‘The One’? Kerry Stokes: the Fun Begins at Seven
John Birmingham
Having ventured once before across the boundary between life and death – to famously declare that there was fucking nothing there – the big...
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Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc
John Harms
In the Cricketers Bar at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, shortly after the Swans’ AFL grand final victory, a bloke from Sydney told me the ABC...
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Scrumming It
Tim Lane
Crisis came early this football year. Round one of the pre-season Wizard Cup was scarcely complete, the home-and-away competition still...
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