Tag: football
Changes ordered after review of country football club racism, sexism claims
A country football league in Western Australia has been ordered to have female representation on its board and introduce an Indigenous welfare officer after claims…
Australia’s most remote Aussie rules football and softball league a feast of ‘hangers’
The A?angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands is home to the most remote Australian rules football competition in the country, spanning more than 200,000 square kilometres…
A week of reconnection with family and culture has reunited Robert Muir and the St Kilda Football Club
It had already been a week of emotional homecomings when Robert Muir returned to St Kilda Football Club’s Moorabbin training facility last Friday, but the…
Willie Rioli Senior, Northern Territory football great, dies aged 50
Willie Rioli Senior, a legend of Northern Territory football and leader on the Tiwi Islands, has died aged 50. Key points: Willie Rioli Senior was…
Female-friendly football changing facilities lagging behind
Football clubs in regional South Australia are worried the lack of female-friendly changing facilities will turn women off from participating in the sport. Key points:…
How the Footy 4 Life program is changing the game for football fans living with a disability
For Caleb Namatjira-McMillan, football is life. The 19-year-old may be wheelchair bound, but that does not stop him from heading down to his local oval…
Racism, sexism claims at South Bunbury Football Club leads to withdrawal of women’s team
An embattled Western Australian country football club has taken the “unprecedented” move of withdrawing its three-time premiership women’s team amid claims of racist and sexist…
Remote football team plays first game in two years with COVID travel restrictions lifted at last
On a red dirt field with only sparse patches of green, the Bidyadanga Emus have pulled on their footy boots at the team’s home ground…
Racist, sexist behaviour and ‘vulgar’ stripper comment prompts half of women’s football club to quit
More than half of a women’s football team in regional Western Australia has quit over what they describe as racist and sexist behaviour within their…
Notorious paedophile John Coogan infiltrated Footscray Football Club in the 1970s
A notorious paedophile who abused boys for decades in the Geelong region took some of his victims to the Footscray Football Club in the late…