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Kerryn Gath

Profiles

Joe Public might receive the name Kerryn Gath with a quizzical look, but, inside the equine industry, she’s far from obscure. How could she be? She is, simply, the best-performed harness driver Australia has ever seen.

David Palmer

Profiles
  It’s a bit unusual to have a world champion in a column titled ‘In Obscurity’, but only three years ago, when we last ventured into the hot and sweaty…

Miao Miao

Profiles
Miao Miao should feel pretty much at home in the sold-out University stadium at the Beijing Olympics. She’ll be ensconced in a tightly-knit Australian team with colleagues she’s teamed up…

Kyle Reeves

Community sport
Gaelic football enters our consciousness twice a year. Once, when it gets thrown into the Irish Stew on St Patrick’s day along with hurling (both versions!) and James Joyce, when…

Chic Boxer

Profiles
“Punching power is my main strength. I have to learn not to punch so hard, because it just comes. I’ve got to learn to move around and duck and weave…

Wither, Cricket?

ARTICLES, Issues, Sport
When this was published, in 2003, T20 cricket was not on the international radar. When it came, it wasn’t so much the solution to cricket’s binary bind as a foil.…

The One

ARTICLES, Profiles, Sport
 The famed “Cups” region of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is a great expanse of undulating paddocks, with the sort of low-lying vegetation typical of wind-fraught seaside locales, and reminiscent of the…

Blame Culture

ARTICLES, Issues, Sport
Note: This was written just before Mark Taylor made his unexpected exit from Cricket Australia – but not before he influenced the appointments of both Paine and Langer.   Were…

Desert uprising

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
Three years ago, Melbourne Football Club saw the future. With some help. Bruce Hearn Mackinnon was the medium in question, and the tall, dark, lithe and crazily gifted figure in…

Weaving Silk

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
In 1868, the first-ever touring cricket side from Australia, the aboriginal team, would hold “games” for the crowd’s entertainment after a day’s play. The entertainment was complimentary, but sometimes they’d…

A black and white argument

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
 Aboriginal sportsmen and women have deeply enriched Australian sport, and, internationally, have done the nation they represent proud. After all these years, it seems compulsory to preface any discussion of…

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