We’ve played netball in Australia for decades. Yet, the origins of the sport are uncertain. It’s something historians and governing bodies are working to correct. More than 1.2 million people play netball in Australia. According to Netball Australia, ‘it’s the number one participation sport for Australian girls’. Nielsen Sports claims that one in five Australians …
A few weeks ago, we published a review of Marion Stell and Heather Reid’s Women In Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s by Professor Jean Williams. This week, we catch up with the authors Marion Stell and Heather Reid to discuss just why that 1979 series is so important. In the early hours of …
Australia won ten medals at the 1960 Rome Paralympics. Six of those medals belong to one of the most successful Australian athletes of all time. In this trip down memory lane, Siren brings you the story of Daphne Hilton. You name it, I played it Daphne Hilton was born in the New South Wales town …
By Megan Brewer With all the anticipation and hype around the new documentary, The Last Dance we thought it would be a great time to look at some documentaries and films that focus on women in sport. It’s no surprise that alongside low mainstream media representation, there are very few sporting documentaries featuring women. ESPN’s …
Since the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect and reminisce about my favourite sporting moments. I think mine would have to be when the Matildas won the World Cup and Lydia Williams invited me to celebrate with the team in the rooms afterwards… then I remembered that that …