This is a transcript of a seminar called Force For Good held at the National Museum of Australia. It involved Sean Gorman, Che Cockatoo-Collins, and David Headon. I moderated it. It is conversational and hence may lack a little structure (in its form and in its thinking) but it addresses the elements of the topic. [Read more]
The Inside Lane
March 16, 2012 by 6 Comments
“Get the inside lane.” That’s all he could think of. “Make sure you get the inside lane.” The cut grass between his toes was damp; spring on a Montmorency morning. The sun shone crisply through the eucalypts’ leaves. He was standing at the centre of his universe.
WHY BLOODY HAWTHORN WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP
March 16, 2012 by 18 Comments
THE OPTIMISTS’ GUIDE TO SEASON 2012. PART NINE. By Alex Wadelton WHY BLOODY HAWTHORN WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP This off-season all we’ve heard is that Hawthorn are this year’s favourites for the flag. They were a few Chance Bateman shanks and Cyril Rioli hesitations from last year’s Grand Final, where they would have beaten Geelong [Read more]
Football Forensics launch new sporting chapter
March 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Robert Allen A new football group on the Queensland scene is keen to recruit new members with an interest in the history of Australian Rules Football. The Queensland Australian Football Forensics will be officially launched at the Pineapple Hotel on 30 March. The Forensics’ story began several years ago after a chance meeting [Read more]
Pre-Season Promise
March 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Start Level 1……..BEEP…. Don’t exert too much. Just get to the line. It’s almost a walk at the start It’s probably not a ‘beep’, to be fair. It isn’t high-pitched enough to warrant an ‘ee’. More like a ‘duuurrrrt’. It is the calling of the legendary ‘beep test’ and it is but one facet of [Read more]
This code-hopping marketing nonsense is beyond a joke
March 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
This code-hopping marketing nonsense is beyond a joke OR for christ’s sakes are we really THAT stupid? Last week AFL’s head honcho, Andrew Demetriou, came out and said something abhorrently dodgy. Here’s the relevant quote: “I’m on the record as saying both Karmichael Hunt and Israel Folau have returned our investment in [Read more]
A fine line
March 15, 2012 by 45 Comments
(Cath Durkin is a first year journalism student, and a footy fan) A passionate man is Eddie McGuire. Keep an eye on him next time you’re playing the Pies if you happen to find yourself on the second level of the Members’ stand at the ‘G and I promise you, you’ll see it. Red-faced [Read more]
WHY GOLD COAST WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP
March 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
THE OPTIMISTS’ GUIDE TO SEASON 2012. PART EIGHT. By Alex Wadelton WHY GOLD COAST WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP The Gold Coast Suns had the most impressive wooden spoon season in history. If the ball had bounced their way a few more times they could well have finished sixteenth, but it was not to be. Still, [Read more]
Eureka!
March 14, 2012 by 30 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Yes, it’s true, Josh Barnstable has already given us a wonderful summary of last Sunday’s game, but I’m prepared to risk being labelled a copycat from North Ballarat. I think our views will be different enough. Josh is a North man; I’m a Dog. He travelled south to get to Ballarat; I [Read more]
How to survive THE Malthouse
March 14, 2012 by 24 Comments
by Danni Eid “Mick Malthouse is very keen ….in your press conference assignment.” The above sentence that doesn’t seem to make sense isn’t a hidden message. Basically it’s all my brain had to take in before I went into meltdown mode. Mick Malthouse is keen to be interviewed by my class mates, by us, BY [Read more]
Politics, power and emotion in The Club
March 14, 2012 by 14 Comments
by Phil Dimitriadis Club politics do not always sit comfortably with the ideas of the coach and his methods of disciplining errant players. In The Club, prize recruit Geoff Hayward is a protected species according to President Ted Parker because he paid an extra ten thousand dollars out of his own pocket to ensure that [Read more]
NAB Cup 2012: North v Bulldogs in Ballarat
March 12, 2012 by 3 Comments
Water, water, everywhere. A fitting summation of what has become of the country town of Numurkah, my home town (sort of). In the past, when people would ask where you’re from, they would screw up their face and muse “Numur-what?” Now when we tell them, they know instantly that we’ve been living on an island, [Read more]
Welcome to the new Coach
March 12, 2012 by 4 Comments
With less than three weeks to go to the start of the football season, there are a number of new coaches anxiously counting the hours until Round 1. For some of them, this time will be one of either confidence that they have inherited a well-managed list with great potential, or a realisation that there’s [Read more]
What Makes a Good Pre-Season?
March 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
What makes a good game of the West Coast Eagles and the Saints in the last Pre-Season match? (Warning: the following is very one-eyed) Winning: so much for that for St.Kilda, one win of the three rounder (note 34 degrees at night), a splosh around in the rain and floods, playing amongst ourselves at Wangaratta [Read more]
Why Geelong will win the premiership
March 11, 2012 by 9 Comments
THE OPTIMIST’S GUIDE TO SEASON 2012. PART SEVEN. By Alex Wadelton WHY GEELONG WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP Gee, they’re long in the tooth. For the rest of the competition the Cats being perennial contenders is getting really old, it’s got so people just can’t think straight anymore. They’ve been at the top for so long [Read more]
Tweeting Temptations
March 8, 2012 by 8 Comments
By Anne Fedorowytsch Nothing could disrupt my passion for the Adelaide Crows. No number of non-performances, near misses in front of goal or non-efforts could ever see me change my one-eyed ways. Although not something but someone has got my eye wandering… It all started on popular social networking site Twitter. An innocuous tongue-in-cheek tweet [Read more]
Why Freo will win the premiership
March 8, 2012 by 12 Comments
THE OPTIMIST’S GUIDE TO SEASON 2012. PART SIX. By Alex Wadelton WHY FREMANTLE WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP By any measures Fremantle have the most successful history in all of Australian Rules football. A perennial powerhouse, they have claimed 42 senior premierships in the WAFL, shared between East and South Fremantle. Sadly, however, this is a [Read more]
Loyalty and Symbolism in The Club
March 7, 2012 by 12 Comments
By Phil Dimitriadis The Club by David Williamson examines the political machinations of a failing football club and the power plays of its traditional and emerging stakeholders. The play challenges the hero myth and teamwork ethic that seems prevalent in the celebratory publications. It is a play about relationships and their vulnerability as the club [Read more]
Obituary – Hank Nelson
March 6, 2012 by 4 Comments
by Gavan Daws (Peter Temple read it and thought it would be of interest to readers…and he was dead right) From Peter: here is a link to a great obit for Hank Nelson, a much-loved prof at the ANU, written by a colleague and lifelong friend, Gavan Daws. Hank was such a quintessential Aussie [Read more]
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