The Lucas Girls are helping to reshape our cultural sporting narrative
The Lucas Girls: A Match to Remember demonstrates how telling the history of women’s sport can help to positively and accurately reshape our cultural narrative.
Category: Historical
Victress and Victory: How Corinne Hall is winning for women off the pitch
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 …
History makers: Lois Quarrell and the women’s sport pages
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.
Five stories from the history of women’s golf
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 …
The missing history of netball
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 …