Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 20 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
What's so great about AFLW? Apart from free entry, cheaper pies, and the fact that you can run onto the field and have a kick at the end of the match?
The AFLW has resuscitated the ailing suburban heart of Australian Rules football – pumping the stands of neglected neighbourhood ovals with boisterous fans of all ages and introducing Australians to a whole new raft of outstanding young athletes.
But the league is maturing and professionalising. As more matches are broadcast, as brands wise up to the sponsorship potential of the league, and as competition (both for draft picks and for the flag itself) intensifies, is the community spirit of the league at risk?
At our annual AFLW Season Wrap, our panel will discuss all the thrills and spills of the season that was, preview the 2019 finals series, and look at the changing tenor of the game.
Featuring
Kate O'Halloran
Kate O'Halloran is a freelance sports journalist and host of AFLW radio show 'Kick Like a Girl' on RRR 102.7FM. She was formerly Deputy Sports Editor at the Guardian and now writes for the ABC, Crikey and the Saturday Paper as well as regularly appearing on News Breakfast on the ABC. She has a PhD in Gender Studies and is passionate about gender equity, LGBTI inclusion and other social justice issues in sport.
Kirby Fenwick
Kirby Fenwick is a writer and audio producer and a co-host of the podcast, Literary Canon Ball. She is also a passionate fan of women’s football. Kirby has written for the Guardian, Eureka Street and Melbourne City of Literature, among others, and produces a weekly segment called ‘Voices From The Stands’ for Triple R’s Kick Like A Girl AFLW show. Her audio documentary, The First Friday in February, which tells the story of the first AFLW game, won the 2018 Oral History Victoria Award.
Nicole Hayes
Nicole Hayes is an award winning author and podcaster and a Melbourne-based creative writing facilitator. Her second YA novel, One True Thing, won the Children’s Peace Literature Prize and is a CBCA Notable book. Her most recent YA novel, A Shadow’s Breath, is a CBCA notable book, and shortlisted in the NSW and WA premiers’ literary awards. She is co-author of AFL junior fiction series, Little Legends (with Adrian Beck), and co-edited an anthology of stories about AFL, From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It (with Alicia Sometimes). She teaches writing at Deakin University where she is also undertaking a PhD in YA fiction. Nicole is an ambassador for the Stella in Schools program and the Australia Reads campaign. She is a founding member of the award winning all-female AFL podcast and radio program, The Outer Sanctum.
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