My brother was driving home late from work last week when he saw a woman on the side of the road being chased by a man. They were both in their early fifties. She was screaming for help. It was eight at night on a main road. The sky was darkening but there were enough streetlights to clearly light the pursuit. Her distress could be heard over the sound of traffic. But people, my brother would recount later, were just driving past. Nobody stopped.
Read MoreThe failures were brutal: draining and relentless and embarrassing. They were also intensely brilliant. Our careers, especially as writers, are a constant immersion in the success of others. The tedious transparency of this essay is deliberate; our intimacy can help others.
Read More‘The national league is not built on the backs of its marquee players. It is built on the backs of the players at the bottom of the list. The league does not survive without them.’
Read More‘It seeps through us in fractures: as a phenomenon, a myth, a joke, an enduring stereotype, a revolution. The question that has lost its form, is no longer a question but an implication: Do girls turn gay in sport?’
Read More‘This is a bigger issue than one individual. It is state-wide. It is national. Abuse and toxic environments are a massive threat to women and girls sport. It is the reason so many children quit.’
Read MoreA friend said it was not the Herald Sun’s fault. “The email address they’d been provided with,” she explained, “was for somebody who hasn’t worked at Basketball Australia for four months.”
Read More‘The WNBL is made up of 8 teams. There are ten contracted athletes per team, which means there are technically 80 available positions. There are really only 3.’
Read More‘I am in a world of women and they are everything. That is why I carry the labeller with me, so I can allocate each woman to their rightful place.’
Read More‘all women, including transgender women, belong in sport.’
Read Moremental toughness, emotional repression and other coping strategies in sport
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Read More‘Victoria has a clear, simple process to reaching Australia’s professional basketball league. The beginning is children playing basketball on a Saturday morning. The middle and the end is the state team programs.’
Read Morean interview series.
Read Morewho gets second chances? who gets any chance at all?
Read More‘the memory is of him. it is his voice speaking through me. i listen. i am an adult and i harbour the child. she always listened.’
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