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‘It’s pressure to not let people down’: Lydia Williams makes leap from goalline to boardroom

The former Matildas goalkeeper will carry experience as a women’s football trailblazer into a new role as a director of the Australian Sports Commission

The Guardian - AU

You’re playing (or watching) sport and someone blurts out a racial slur. The next 60 seconds are crucial

In October last year, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) launched Dealing with the Moment: Anti-Racism in Community Sport, a free online course designed to help community coaches, parents, umpires and players respond to racism in sport.

The Conversation

Australia’s toxic addiction to sport inflicts a grim fiscal toll

Forget the small change for UFC and NFL: taxpayers hand billions of dollars to high-profile and elite sports and get no benefits whatsoever.

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Advice to Scott Morrison at centre of five-year legal battle that cost taxpayers $400,000 finally released

‘Transparency warrior’ obtains release of advice written by then attorney general Christian Porter over authority of minister to direct $100m sports grants

The Guardian - AU

Paris is adding another page to Paralympic history but what will its legacy be?

A record 4,400 athletes from more than 160 countries are competing in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, with 549 medal events across 22 sports.

The Conversation

First dates and the Olympic effect: why climbing is booming in Canberra

Many start a relationship on the rocks. It's only up from there.

The Canberra Times

The new national plan for sport has no measurable targets - exactly how politicians like it

The federal minister for sport, Anika Wells, recently launched a discussion paper for a new National Plan for Sport, which will be the fourth such plan produced since 2001.

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‘It’s a complete frenzy’: Matildas mania grips Australia

Women’s World Cup fever soars as the co-hosts gear up to play rivals England for a place in the final.

Al Jazeera

Australia’s peak sports body OKs transwomen competing – with conditions

The Australian Sports Commission's latest gender-diverse inclusion document has endorsed testosterone limits for transwomen in elite sports

The New Daily

Naomi was abused by her coaches at the Australian Institute of Sport, now she's receiving compensation for psychological harm

Naomi Lee was abused by her elite gymnastics coaches between the ages of 11 and 14. The Australian Sports Commission will now compensate her for the psychological harm she suffered.

ABC News

Teens stepping up to fill umpiring gap, Australian Sports Commission says

More than one million people in Australia volunteer in sports as an official and almost 15 per cent are teenagers, according to the Australian Sports Commission.

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