England is a country where soccer is their national sport. Millions play it, and they inject hundreds of millions of dollars into funding it. They’re obsessed with it.
Australia puts most sports funding into other games and although lots of kids play soccer, the game has nowhere near the attention, numbers of players or relentless support here it gets in Europe.
Our #Matildas were regularly playing to just a couple of hundred people until very recently. Their pay and conditions were close to pitiful until just a few short years ago. Many of them played for boy’s teams growing up, or had to move states or even continents just to get the game time they needed to excel. They did it HARD.
And as we’ve said a few days ago, they’ve also faced extraordinary misogyny, ridicule and barriers to success, just for being female.
Yet this women’s team have made history by getting to the final four in a tournament fought by nations where soccer is the reason a lot of them get up in the morning.
The Matildas haven’t failed: they’ve won. They’ve won our hearts and minds and changed sport - especially women’s sport - in this country forever.
They should all be so proud, and we should all be so proud of them.
Now it’s our collective responsibility to force our media to value women’s sport and our governments to fund it properly. We must hold their feet to the fire on behalf of all the little girls who deserve their chance to shine.
Thank you, Tillies.
You’re the fucking best, and you did us all proud. It’s been so much fun watching you play.
Good luck in your final #FIFAWomensWorldCup match.
#TilitsDone
The Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page
It is 439 words
The Uluru Statement was supported by other documents contained in a Referendum Council report that reflected and documented preceding regional dialogues and consultations.
@CostaJedda Appreciate your opinion and views but given that Uncle Stan is a public figure who has forced his views and opinions on the Australian ppl for years now, we are wholly entitled to form our views on such views and opinions. He’s got a lot to answer for.
a teacher who attended that awful bus crash in Melbourne yesterday later apologised while being interviewed for hugging some children who were upset, " I know we're not supposed to but I did". What kind of crazy world are we living in when a child cannot be comforted?
OMFG NO ONE, LITERALLY NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO TAKE YOUR KIDS TO DRAG STORY-TIME. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T GO FFS
I am so fucking sick of hearing about this.
@SkyNewsAust Does Dutton not realise in a democracy all people are allowed to express opinions? The Liberals laughingly pretend to be the party of free speech.
I watched the second viewing of the Incident Command Investigation in the Tasering of the very old women..and if the NSW Commissioner Of Police thought he handled it well..he's a fucking idiot ..he mumbled his way through it like some sort of SIMPLETON....it was AWEFUL..🤬
‘Appalling’: Drag queen story time in Victorian parliament is ‘blatant politicisation’ https://t.co/8FE0adamnl
NONE of YOUR concern, let ALONE any of YOUR business Hollie. Methinks that thou doth PROTEST too much sweetheart AS they are more BEAUTIFUL than you, just an old white female heterosexual hag, CAN ever be! Piss OFF out of our lives!
#PrinceHarry, the boy who walked behind his mum's coffin when he was 12, now grown to be a real man protecting his wife & kids the way he and #PrincessDiana should've been protected, but instead were fed to the #ToxicBritishPress by their own family.
#WeLoveYouHarryAndMeghan ♥️
Fvcking racists, I hope you’re proud
For years I've been a media target for racism & paid a heavy price. For now, I want no part of it – I'm stepping away
“Australia is the only Commonwealth country not to have signed treaties with First Nations people.”
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