The AFL and the NRL made front page news over the weekend in national broadsheets as well as state tabloids. But the headlines and associated stories were no cause for celebration. Two senior executiv…
Andy Murray takes down a reporter’s sexist question.
Andy Murray bowed out of Wimbledon overnight after losing to US player Sam Querrey. And the Scot was in no mood for casual sexism in his post-match interview, as a reporter quickly discovered. “…
Everything you need to know about eSport. (And why it’s good for women.)
Over the past few months, I have received a lot of requests to explain what eSports is from a variety of industries. And usually after I explain that in Australia it is now a $1.2 billion industry and…
‘It’s time for women’s sport to get more airtime than racehorses.’
The AFL Women’s thrilling grand final last weekend has proven beyond a doubt that women’s sport has a strong and exciting future in this country. I was one of the more than 15,000 footy fans at Metric…
Women cricketers in Australia just got a very big pay rise.
Cricket Australia has tabled a ground-breaking remuneration and benefits proposal to the nation’s professional cricketers which will deliver female players an immediate pay increase of 125%. “We…
Women in AFL are paying to play & it needs to change.
Less than a fortnight out from bounce-off the AFL moved the inaugural NAB AFL Women’s game from Olympic Park Oval, a training ground without much capacity, to Ikon Park which can seat up to 22,000 peo…
‘Why I said nothing when a well-known man exposed himself to me at a work function.’
Of all the sports functions I’ve attended over the years (and there have been many), one sticks out in my memory for all the wrong reasons. Towards the end of the evening, I went to the ladies’ room. …
The seriously good news story we need: Women’s AFL makes history
If you flipped through the papers last weekend, you probably noticed it. Women’s sport, and the AFL Women’s League in particular, was everywhere. Not confined to a few paragraphs inside th…
More women in AFL? We’d like to see that!
Cathy Freeman, Michelle Payne, Moana Hope, Turia Pitt and Lee Lin Chin have joined with the AFL to celebrate the historic first season of the NAB AFL Women’s competition in a powerful advertising camp…
The dreadful reason women’s cricket made it to the front page
It’s not every day that women’s sports makes the front page of any newspaper, let alone a national broadsheet like The Australian. It has today but hold off on celebrating. Meg Lanning, the captain of…
