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Many Australian athletes live below the poverty line but others rake in millions. What’s the deal with player wages in our major sports?
As the AFLW prepares for its grand final, it’s clear the competition needs a strategic overhaul.
Ahead of the AFL draft, a steady decline of Indigenous players in the men’s and women’s leagues needs to be rectified.
Despite the emergence of nutrition science and the resources available to most elite athletes, many don’t consume enough carbohydrates.
Digital performance tracking is everywhere in pro sports but new research shows it may not suit semi-professional AFLW players.
New research has revealed key injury pattern differences between men and women footballers, with concussion rates especially concerning.
Many fans support diversity and inclusivity initiatives in sports but others don’t. New research shows why this happens, and what can be done to garner more widespread support.
Skinfold tests were once a staple of AFL fitness assessments, but are now banned for junior athletes. Is this a sign footballers have ‘gone soft’, or is there good reason for it?
While overt sexualisation of women in sports is now rarer, sports media needs a more diverse range of voices to help fight misogyny.
For decades, some sports have fostered a win-at-all-costs culture, with concussion often an afterthought. But there are signs that attitude is changing.
Tasmania is set to become the AFL’s 19th team and the league is likely to expand again at some point, which begs the question: where should the 20th club be based?
From what sports you can watch with an old aerial, to what apps you’ll see when you switch on a new smart TV – sports lovers can expect big changes ahead.
The AFL’s newest team, the Tasmania Devils, launched on Monday night, drawing on its rich football history in a blaze of myrtle green, primrose yellow and rose red.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a devastating form of dementia, which causes a decline in brain functioning and increased risk of mental illness.
Diversity is vital for developing the AFL, but the league needs to consider the structural and cultural barriers to attracting this diverse talent in the first place.
The cost of a Tasmanian team joining the AFL can be justified on economic and social grounds.
The AFL is searching for a new CEO amid ongoing reports of systemic racism, a lack of meaningful support for the AFLW and insufficient action on head injuries.
This systematic devaluing of those most invested in the AFLW isn’t new. It’s time to ask if the AFL is up to the task of running AFLW.
Jacinda Barclay, an AFLW player who died last year, has had her brain donated to concussion research. In general, women are understudied regards to their long-term brain health.
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Health Science, Swinburne University of Technology
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Deakin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer Sport Business Management, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Deakin University
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Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor in Coaching and Sport Psychology, Deakin University
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Associate professor, First Year College, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, Victoria University