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Thursday 28 October
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
We’re very quick to celebrate our sporting culture as a reflection of the very qualities we think of as Australian. But isn’t football sexist? Isn’t it racist? Isn’t it homophobic? This is a footy town, but how well does the game foster attitudes of tolerance, of diversity and inclusiveness?
In partnership with the AFL Players’ Association and the Basil Sellers Art Prize, we take an honest look at the culture of football.
Featuring
Pippa Grange
Pippa Grange is the AFL Players Association’s former General Manager of Culture and Leadership.
Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for the Age since 1999.
Caroline was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL’s gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association’s football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association’s most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.
Before joining the Age, Caroline covered four Wimbledon’s, three British Open’s and an FA Cup final and worked in radio (winning the 1995 RAWARD for best current affairs commentator). At the Sunday Age Caroline won journalist of the year (1993) and best feature writer (1994). She has covered both the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games for the Age. And she has covered three Commonwealth Games – she reported on the Edinburgh Games in 1986, the Auckland Games in 1990 and the Melbourne Games in 1996.
Chris McAuliffe
Dr Chris McAuliffe is Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. Prior to that he was for ten years a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Dr McAuliffe has researched and written extensively in the area of contemporary art, and is the author of Art and Suburbia, 1996, Linda Marrinon: let her try, 2007, and Jon Cattapan: possible histories, 2008.
He is a regular media commentator on the arts and currently appears on ABC TV’s ‘Sunday Arts’ programme.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne and of Harvard University, Dr McAuliffe is currently researching the interaction of art and popular music.