April 2013
The Sport Doping Enquiry Isn’t Just Stupid - It’s Wrong
By Richard Cooke
‘UNITE THE FIGHT AGAINST NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT CRIME’. That’s the awkward, shouty slogan of the Australian Crime Commission, turning its attention to problems that, like the old line about the Holy Roman Empire, are not national, not significant, and not crime. More than two months have passed since the release of the ACC’s report into organised crime and drugs,
February 2013
The Sporting Life
By Michaela McGuire
The “blackest day in Australian sport” was born in locker rooms and laboratories, well away from any arena. Lance Armstrong finally, definitively, fell from grace while seated in a television studio across from Oprah Winfrey. Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend three times through a bathroom door in a heavily guarded walled community in Pretoria. In simpler times, when newspapers reported
