Browsing Tag Politics
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Sport 1
How Waleed Aly tried to rope-a-dope Muhammad Ali and failed
When we write about people, we talk about the times that shaped them and the experiences they’ve had. How else do we begin to understand these complex figures — especially ...
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Pop Culture
Music for a dumbed down world: Why RATM’s Evil Empire still matters
I don’t know what I was so ashamed of. For some reason I couldn’t spit out the words, “I… I really love Rage Against the Machine.” The dreadlocked ...
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Football
Stop The Flares! FFA proposes to swap children detained in Nauru with A-League troublemakers
Shoot Farken can exclusively reveal that Football Federation Australia (FFA) has approached the Federal Government, namely the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, in a desperate bid to ...
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Football
The Red and Black Bloc Massacre
The big day had arrived. It was stinkingly hot. The mercury had brushed 40c earlier in the day in Sydney’s West. RBB (Red and Black Bloc) stalwart, Rob, ...
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Australian Rules
How to turn a buck from sport in the World’s Most Liveable City
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but if someone else pays for it, it’s close enough. I managed to score a free* ticket to Victoria University’s ...
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Australian Rules 1
Australia, it’s time to take a GHLAO (good hard look at ourselves)
Having migrated to this country in 1994, I saw many of Australia’s great sporting deeds. In 1996, during class in Grade 5, I watched Kieren Perkins win gold ...
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