69 document(s) in Sport.
Leaders unite to 'sell' sport
THE world can work in weird and wonderful ways. In a week in which the AFL drew "battlelines" against its biggest threat, soccer, and the Crawford review was released pitting professional and mass participation sports against lower-profile Olympic sports for the funding dollar, Australia's sporting leaders united as they never have before.
The Sunday Age 22/11/2009
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Give sport a chance
Why we mustn't underestimate the power of physical activity to teach and inspire.
The Sunday Age 22/11/2009
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Give sport a chance
Sport is all about the magic. It shouldn't be conscripted for national service.
The Sunday Age 22/11/2009
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Olympic glory no longer greatest measure of nation's sporting conscience
OTHER than its breathtaking $108.8 million cash grab, the most revealing part of the Australian Olympic Committee's 229-page high-performance plan submitted to the Crawford Report into government sports funding is its almost total lack of self-justification that is, beyond the contention that winning more Olympic medals than almost any other nation should be a goal in itself.
Newcastle Herald 19/11/2009
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Making sport accessible
Making sport accessible
Newcastle Herald 18/11/2009
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Green and gold champions plead for a sporting chance
A FORMER head of the Australian Sports Commission, Mark Peters, believes mediocrity will reign if the commission and Australian Institute of Sport are controlled by the Department of Health.
Sydney Morning Herald 31/10/2009
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Speedy new sport for summer days
A NEW sport is headed to the Illawarra in time for summer.
Illawarra Mercury 31/10/2009
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Such hypocrisy in sporting codes
THE issue of male sportsmen's perception of women is yet again in the spotlight with the appalling alleged sexual assault of two young women by members of a suburban football team (The Age, 28/10).
The Age 30/10/2009
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Uncertainty is paralysing sporting bodies, says VIS
SPECULATION about the contents of the soon-to-be released Crawford report, which has created anxiousness among sports administrators nationally, has not concerned the head of the Victorian Institute of Sport, but the sports chief said yesterday that other organisations had come to a standstill.
The Age 28/10/2009
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Giving art a sporting chance
Philanthropist Basil Sellers' latest project finds common ground for two great loves, writes Raymond Gill.
The Age 27/10/2009
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