Hobart Hurricanes captain Corinne Hall reflects on the release of her book, Victress: Women who paved the way in Australian Sport Last month, one of our favourite women in sport advocates, Michelle Redfern, tagged us in a tweet that celebrated a newly released children’s book from Irish athlete Jacqui Hurley’s, Girls Play Too: Inspiring Stories …
In a career that spanned 34 years, South Australian sports writer Lois Quarrell was a pioneer. A meticulous reporter, a passionate advocate, a champion administrator.
Women have been playing golf in Australia for more than 100 years. Here, we’ve pulled together five stories from the rich history of the game. The story goes that the first woman to play golf was Mary, Queen of Scots. There are even reports that Mary was the driving force behind the construction of the …
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 …