Sporting Ethics

Angela is an award-winning journalist, presenter, documentary-maker, author and MC.

Her most recent documentary, The Record, follows Australia’s dramatic Women’s T20 World Cup campaign and the audacious bid to fill the MCG for the final on International Women’s Day 2020. The two-part documentary premiered globally on Amazon Prime in March 2021, and had a secondary release on ABC TV. Angela co-wrote and co-produced the film. Her next documentary idea is bubbling away.

Angela is a co-host on Broad Radio - a live-streamed radio show by and for women.

She also writes regular columns about sport and culture for a number of publications and is a tireless campaigner for gender equality in sport and society. In fact, her most recent book, Breaking The Mould – Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport made the Grattan Institute’s ‘Prime Minister’s Summer Reading list’, The Australia Institute’s ‘Essential Reading List’ and is on its third reprint.

Angela is a proud ambassador of the Adelaide Crows.

Gerard Whateley is a broadcaster with ABC Radio Sport fronting the AFL and horse-racing coverage. He is an award-winning journalist who has worked at the Herald Sun and Channel Ten.

During six years with Australia’s biggest selling daily newspaper, Gerard Whateley gained experience in most areas of journalism including police rounds, courts and state politics.

After researching the paper’s hardback book Our Home Front documenting life in Australia during the Second World War from contemporary newspapers, Gerard became the paper’s film reviewer, then editor of HIT magazine before being appointed senior writer for the Sunday Magazine in 1998.

Always with an eye toward his first passion - sport, Gerard wrote regular in-depth features gaining rare access to the likes of Wayne Carey, Greg Norman and Jacques Villeneuve while covering football as a “second job” for the Sunday Herald Sun.

That led to a job as Channel Ten’s senior sport reporter at the beginning of 1999. At the end of his first year he was named the Young Journalist of the Year at the Melbourne Press Club’s prestigious Quill Awards and Network Ten Young Achiever of the Year.

In 2001 Gerard accepted the chief reporter’s position at Seven News, winning the Quill Award for the Most Outstanding News Report. Soon after, Ten reclaimed Gerard as a founding member of the network’s AFL commentary team. Gerard also joined ABC Radio’s AFL team.

In his inaugural year calling football he was named Australian Football Media Association’s Most Outstanding Radio Caller, following in the footsteps of Tim Lane. Meanwhile his horse racing work in print, radio and television was rewarded with numerous awards including the 2004 Cox Plate Story of the Year for the ABC.

Having been a regular voice on the national broadcaster for a couple of years, Gerard joined the ABC full time in September 2004 to fulfil a childhood dream of broadcasting a wide variety of sports. In 2007 he was named the ABC Sports Broadcaster of the year.

Lisa Forrest is a TV and radio broadcaster, actress and writer.

Lisa represented first Australia in swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in 1978 as a 14 year old. She returned at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and Brisbane in 1982, where she won two gold medals.

In 2000 Lisa Forrest released her first novel, Making The Most Of It which dealt with the problem of sporting celebrity, failure and self-esteem, friendships and relationships, eating disorders and drugs in sport. In 2008, Lisa published Boycott, the story behind Australia’s controversial involvement in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

With a history of commentating and media roles, Lisa currently hosts Qantas' award winning in-flight program A Current of Air and is working on a new novel for young adults with a working title Lip.

Joel Bowden played for the Richmond Tigers and has been president of the AFL Players Association.