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Sport


Issue 17: October 2005 (October 2005)
  The new softer, more pliable Australia
[Sport] With all the highlights in their hair, modelling contracts and jewellery endorsements, is the era of the gritty sporting hero over?
 
Issue 6: May 2004 (Focus on Iraq)
  Of Bulldogs and Other Animals
[Sport] Bringing professional sports players back down from their rarerified existences would be a practical first step in addressing their behavioural problems.
 
Issue 5: February 2004 (Australian National Security)
  Swallow and Win
[Sport] The choice between performance enhancing drugs for athletes will one day resemble the choice between Nike and Reebok, and it will include the sponsorship agreement.
 
Issue 1: September 2003 (Homosexual Clergy)
  FIFA the Indian Giver
[Sport] FIFA performs a serious backflip and snatches back the precious world cup qualifying place it had only just given to Oceania. Australian soccer cries foul, but is it really such a bad thing?