Fair, good, better: improving the AFL's cost-of-living allowance
With alarming predictability, the AFL’s cost-of-living allowance comes up every couple of months, usually during trade week, just before the season starts, and any time a team with the concession does well. As a Swans supporter with a pretty active twitter account, hardly a week goes by without someone making a sly comment, explicitly or […]
Wherever you're from- but you should probably be a man
The AFL’s new ad is based on the premise that people everywhere can be captured by our game. Here is what I learnt from the ad: Here’s the link to the ad. It’s actually worse than even those screen shots capture. 58 seconds long, and women get 3.5 seconds of screen time.
My life in sport, or how I learnt to think about sport
It took a long time to recognise my love of sport, and longer still to acknowledge it. As it kid, I wasn’t remotely self-conscious about it. I loved Kieren Perkins from the minute I heard him tell his story on an ad during Saturday Morning Disney in the lead-up to the 1992 Olympics. I spent […]