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WHY WOULD A country whose greatest export is a bikini wax be awarded the Olympic games? Brazil – where every...

TASMANIA’S NORTH-WEST COAST city of Burnie has long suffered high unemployment. In 2015, however, residents were shocked to find...

I LIVE AND work in the poorest electorate in the poorest state in the country, on the north-west coast...

By Scott Rankin

IN HIS HIGHLY influential history of Australian rules football, Geoffrey Blainey promoted the idea that the sport constituted a...

THE BEGUILING PROMISE of sport is that everyone is treated equally: that it transcends politics through meritocracy. Fair play...

MUCH OF MY life is spent writing about race politics, suicide and genocide. For relief, I write about sport –...

THERE IS NO doubt that soccer began to be associated with European ethnic groups in Australia after the Chifley...

By Josh Chiat

THERE’S A SPECIAL moment in mid-February when the grass at our local park is so smooth, tended so carefully,...

@FletaTheTweeter: I was sent to interview Chris Gayle a couple of years ago. He said no to the interview before...

By Fleta Page

IT SOMEHOW SEEMED right, one golf day, that we ended up banging on about the Brisbane Rugby League competition...

By William McInnes

IN 1976 MY Aunty Pam, who had returned from her job as a nurse on the volcanic island of...

By John Harms

ONLY A GENEROUS observer would have said I was dancing around the ring. A less generous one, the one...

By Paul Mitchell