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THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has already seen a stream of premature epitaphs written for many long-standing social phenomena, not least...

By Geoff Woolcock

Waverley. You were my Saturday crèche when I was too young to see over the fence on the wing....

By Alicia Sometimes

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

By Tracey Holmes

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