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Time To Recognise Hockey’s Victims of Politics

Not the Footy Show Podcast

The Australian Olympic Team that competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, despite a US-led boycott, was recently formally recognized by the Australian Parliament for their participation 45 years after the event. To some this seemed a strange occurence as these

Drawing A Long Bow?

No doubt most of us can remember being told as a child not do something. Don’t open that box, don’t look in that cupboard. As soon as we were told not to do something it made many of us more

Inspirational Athletes – 27

At some time in everyone’s life they will have to do something that they do not want to do. Many of us are very fortunate that these times in the main are restricted to when we were a child. Many

Down And Out In Paris… Not Now.

When times are tough in the world of politics the rule of thumb is to create a diversion. Put a new topic in the spotlight to take people’s minds off the really contentious issue. If ever an organisation was a

Time to Stand As One, or Face the Possible Consequences

Not surprising many Western Australians are angry. They feel a sense of betrayal after the Australian Rugby Union axed the Western Force from the Super Rugby competition on Friday. A decision the ARU claim was due to “financial constraints” yet