German Sport Airs Its Dirty Laundry At Last
For decades, two Cold War powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were the…More
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Watching Iraq From The Sidelines
"I live in Australia. It is beautiful, but my mind is in Iraq," explains Farid*.…More
Footy Still Locks Out Indigenous Players
A new football season is upon us, which for so many Victorians is like being…More
What We Can Learn From Indigenous Sports
In Australia, it is almost a cliché to claim that sport makes up for the…More
Go For Grassroots Over Gold
In a week where Syria’s civil war intensified and a robot laboratory was landed on…More
Olympians Can't Leave Politics At Home
The outrage over whether boxer Damien Hooper should have worn an Aboriginal flag t-shirt in…More
Of Boat People and Thoroughbreds
As a nation, we are obsessed with foreigners. Simultaneously enthralled and appalled, it is a…More
Out Of The Frying Pan
We’ve asked National Affairs Correspondent Ben Eltham to write about every aspect of Australian political…More
Why Racism Is The Choice Of Champions
Sport and race have always been uneasy bedfellows. One only has to look at South…More
A Lack Of Stirring Words
You can learn a lot about Kevin Rudd from watching his farewell speech to the…More