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All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games

  • Written by: Tim Olds, Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia

The Olympics transfix us. Six in every ten people in the world – including both you, dear reader, and me – watched the London 2012 Olympics. Use of the word Olympics increased in relative frequency 3,300% between 1924 and 1984. But what are the Olympics to us, how are we to read them socially and politically?

The Olympic Games are a...

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Cabinet battle over Rudd a test for Foreign Minister Bishop

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The strength of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be tested on Thursday when she proposes the government should nominate Kevin Rudd to run for secretary-general of the United Nations.

Bishop faces some high profile opponents of the nomination, most notably Treasurer Scott Morrison and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

It also appears Prime...

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Tasmanian Senate result: 5 Labor, 4 Liberals, 2 Greens, 1 Lambie

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Today the “Button” was pressed to distribute preferences for the Tasmanian Senate. On final primary votes, Labor had 4.37 quotas, the Liberals 4.23, the Greens 1.45, Jacqui Lambie 1.08 and One Nation 0.33. This was further complicated by substantial below the line votes for Labor’s No. 6 candidate, Lisa Singh, and the Liberals'...

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Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?

  • Written by: Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with “clean” urine, has been widely reported.

For those unfamiliar with the global politics of sport and the ubiquity...

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