St Kilda and Sydney to play AFL’s first gay pride game
St Kilda and Sydney will play the AFL’s first pride match in round 21 next season as the football community takes an historic stance for…
Homophobia in sport: Playing with pride and trying to change an attitude
After the final siren sounded at Australia’s first “Pride Cup” something unexpected happened.
Headspace: ‘McDonaldisation’ of youth mental healthcare a ticking time bomb
Leading mental health experts have called on the Prime Minister to urgently address what they say is an unfolding disaster within Australia’s national youth mental…
Human frailty and masculinity: Mitch Clark shows their compatibility
Raw and unedited, this was a private hell made instantly public. But for some in the AFL community, witnessing Mitch Clark wrestle with the black…
Why being alone means keeping good company
Switch off your phone. Turn down the music. Be still. Nothing but your own thoughts. Does the silence scare you? How long before all that…
Calls to help sex-change kids as demand for gender reassignment soars
The number of children accessing medical treatment to help them change gender has increased 60-fold, leaving Australia’s only clinic for transgender young people struggling to…
Bitter rift on youth mental health provider headspace
A major rift within national youth mental health service headspace has erupted, with one of its founding board members publicly raising questions about how the…
‘I didn’t know any footballers who were gay’
SOMETIMES he’d say he had a girlfriend. In the world of Aussie rules football, Jason Ball thought he had to play up his ”blokeyness”. When…