Big Ideas

Australia's sporting myths


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Australia is obsessed with sport — it's become shorthand for our national identity abroad. But there's tension at the heart of this obsession.

As keen and disinterested followers of Australian sport have witnessed, sports of all kinds have had a troubled relationship with race, gender, and sexuality.It's something Mununjali writer — and part-time soccer player — Ellen van Neerven considers in their book Personal Score, exploring their complicated relationship with sport in the process.

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