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John Roskam

Thorburn’s cancelling shows politics is now football’s main game

The AFL prides itself on being a cultural and workplace leader – and unfortunately it is. What the AFL does today is what the government and society will do tomorrow.

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If sport is life, then life in Australia is not in a good way.

The country and public life in the country has changed and has changed quickly. A decade of “diversity” and “tolerance” policies and slogans has made Australia less diverse and less tolerant. The country is close to becoming less recognisable by the day.

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