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.
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 …
Netball—which prior to 1970 was known as basketball in Australia—has a very long and very interesting history. There are conflicting accounts, but it seems likely that netball (the sport formally known as basketball) was played in Australia as early as 1906. The game was almost certainly being played in Victorian primary schools by 1913 and …