Response to Latrell incident shows game is on the right track
As a lifelong Souths supporter and NRL fan I was proud and uplifted to see the strong and genuine support offered to Latrell Mitchell by the club, especially coach Jason Demetriou, and the NRL...
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The ugly relationship heals a little in Australia’s summer of rejuvenation
The debut of Scott Boland, just the fourth Indigenous Australian to play Test cricket, was disappointing only in its brevity. There is scarcely a poet, living or dead, who could have scripted two more...
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Despite the ‘racing incident’, abusing Lewis Hamilton is completely unacceptable
Two weekends ago, in the aftermath of a devastating defeat for England in the Euro final at Wembley, three English players – all of whom missed penalties in the shootout which gifted Italy the...
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Can rugby league do any more to tackle racism?
I’m sorry, I really am. I wanted to do a puff piece this week about which NRL side a newcomer should support, and I promise it’ll come. But the spectre of racism and abuse continues to abate the game,...
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Racism in sport and our opportunity to do better
Sitting in the grandstand hearing the boos, hearing the howls, what would you do? This is not a question directed at any individual. It is a question directed to the people of Australia. Like the...
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Eddie McGuire’s trainwreck of a spin job only reinforces damning Collingwood...
“This is a historic and proud day for the Collingwood Football Club.” So said Eddie McGuire mere hours after a report was published which stated there was systemic racism at the club. Just to make sure...
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“A sick joke”: Serie A called out for using paintings of monkeys in...
Serie A’s decision to use three paintings of monkeys to launch a new campaign to stamp out racism on Monday has been branded “a sick joke”. The league said the paintings by Italian artist Simone...
View ArticleAustralian sport must embrace multiculturalism
Sport has been a wonderful past-time in Australia for as long as I can remember, and it has been an exhibition of this country’s values and expectations of which people of Australia should obey by, and...
View ArticleDoes it offend you, yeah? Reaction to a dance highlights deeper issues
The innocuous action of performing an Indigenous war dance has sent Australian sports fans and media into a frenzy. Adam Goodes’ celebration on the weekend in the Swans’ victory over Carlton, which...
View ArticleCycling and racism: UCI needs to get ahead of the game
If you go to the front page of the FIFA website, world football’s governing body, you’ll see a link called social responsibility. Click on that and you’ll see a link for anti-racism which reads in part...
View ArticleDo we really deserve Dreamtime at the ‘G?
Indigenous round seems to bring out the worst in us. It’s meant to be a celebration and give us a warm fuzzy feeling that we’ve come a long way and embraced reconciliation. We’ll still get the...
View ArticleIt’s time the ugliness within shipped out
I know your kind well enough. You’re the one sitting there shaking your head because your afternoon has been interrupted by another parcel of reactionary, pinko print designed to extract an apology...
View ArticleGoodes racially vilified again: Essendon fan has membership torn up
AFL club Essendon have terminated the membership of a fan who racially vilified Sydney’s dual Brownlow medallist and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes during Friday night’s game at Etihad Stadium....
View ArticleMonkey chants at Spanish football
Levante midfielder Pape Diop says he was the subject of monkey chanting by Atletico Madrid fans as his side inflicted a shock 2-0 defeat on Spanish league leaders. Diop provoked outrage among the...
View ArticleBarcelona and NBA stars win battles against racism in sport
Thankfully racism in sport is a subject that rarely generates headlines. But Dani Alves from Barcelona and the Los Angeles Clippers have won praise from all over the world for making a stand against...
View ArticleIs the AFL racist?
The answer to this is, of course, no. Assigning human-defined qualities such as ‘rights’, ‘freedom’ and ‘racism’ to a non-human entity like the AFL is usually pretty tenuous and in this case to label...
View ArticleAdam, meet Eddie… explain it to him, too, will ya?
Last weekend’s AFL Indigenous Round was especially notable for the build up. It was promoted everywhere as an honour and recognition of the Indigenous people of this land. You really couldn’t miss it....
View ArticleAdam Goodes a class act on and off the field
Another marvellous round of footy (unless you follow North, who in coach, Brad Scott’s words lost the un-loseable, or Melbourne, who were barely competitive) was marred with the off-field controversy...
View ArticleCycling is too white
In sports such as football, rugby, cricket, athletics, baseball and basketball, non-white (especially black but also, increasingly, Asian) players are prominent throughout, from grassroots to the very...
View ArticleRacism in football: Where does the buck stop?
Racism has been the dark underbelly of football for decades. We’ve come a long way since the 1980s, where black players were mercilessly hounded by opposing fans, but despite the efforts to promote...
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