Harry Mosby won a silver medal for Australia at the 1976 Paralympics. It has only recently come to light how significant that achievement was.
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The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship honours the resiliency of Indigenous Peoples while presenting youth with the opportunity to grow personally and professionally.
In both mainstream and Indigenous communities across Canada, sport is neither inherently good nor bad. Rather, it is a tool that must be used responsibly.
After eight months of an inquiry there are ‘no adverse findings’ against former Hawthorn staff.
Ellen van Neerven cleverly invites us to question what it means to play sport on a ‘Country that is rich in story’, on a playing field that’s almost always uneven for Blackfullas.
By choosing to play for their ancestral homes, Pacific footballers might lose the chance of bigger pay checks, but they still win at a cultural level. And the payoff for the game is immense.
Higher levels of parental wellbeing while children were young was linked with children being more physically active as they got older.
Two dramatic narratives arc through this documentary that marks 20 years since Cathy Freeman’s Olympic triumph: her reflections as an elite athlete, and our experience as a nation of spectators.
With the AFL’s indigenous round about to take place, it’s important to recognise the full history of Indigenous involvement in the sport, including the many obstacles players faced.
If hockey is to be a sport that brings people together and fosters what’s best about Canada, it needs to reckon with Canada’s – and hockey’s – history of racism and settler colonialism.
Sports weekends are where family connections are sustained, and culture is infused into Australian football games played on country.
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Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer and PhD student, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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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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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology
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Master Student in Sport Management, Brock University
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Indigenous Research Officer, University of Toronto
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer in Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology
