Noel Brady

Former Executive Producer Sport 7 Network & SBS (Aus)...Retired...living the dream with the love of my life...

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@CraigNorenbergs @wwos Happy to agree with you buddy…

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

No one tells it quite like Jonathan …

[Nuno Sarnadas @nunosarnadas]

How can you not wake a trillionaire and think to yourself "alright, how can I help"?

We failed miserably as a society for letting things like this happen.

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@EddyJokovich @Exhausted_dad What research?

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Yep … gutless lot…like their US counterparts…

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where Pauline Hanson can call Sarah Martin a “trashy journalist” on live TV at the @PressClubAust today and all the other journos didn’t get up and immediately walk out of there?

#NewsCorpse

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Memories…

[Alby T @steele_sports]

7’s Big League 1981
State of #origin
#nrl #rugbyleague
Rex - Artie - Sludge
@TheNRLSHADOW

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Spot on…

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

The worst part of Hanson’s address at the #NPC?
1. Hanson.
2. The journalists in the room who failed to interrogate her.
3. Same journalists who thanked her and applauded.
4. People actually believe her lies.
5. And finally, the NPC itself. Once again, it’s failed to do its job.

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Is that a yes then, Pauline?

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@vermilionpixie @CraigNorenbergs Hmmm didn’t exactly age well Craig😎

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Likely scenario

[Pietro @PietroDarke]

@MicallefPhilip @FIFAWorldCup Rights sold to broadcaster would have been inflated to allow for the additional advertising space it has created for them.

[Ray Gatt @Gatty54]

lol….hopefully they eat her up at the press club!

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Timely reminder…like the Socceroos…giant killers…

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Hi @abcnews @abcsport could you please tell your sports reporter the nightly news bulletin is not a “show”.

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Hear Hear…

[Philip Micallef ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤 @MicallefPhilip]

Great job today, @SBSSportau. Excellent coverage all round: expert commentary, insightful panel.

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@CraigNorenbergs @SBS Hi all…you want to watch the World Cup FREE? Or pay to watch it?

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@neilcordy @SBS Anything but USA comms please

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@OliverTrenchard Early days…give them a chance to adapt/fine tune .

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@neilsherwin Particularly lack of halftime analysis…bad call

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

@Gatty54 @SBS & difficult to comprehend at times…

[Noel Brady @dippedin]

Love this ❤️

[Ibrahim Sannie Daara @SannieDaara]

One of the most beautiful moments before Spain vs Peru pre-World Cup did not come from a goal, a tackle or a piece of skill. 🇪🇸 v 🇵🇪 💘

It came from kindness.

As the players walked onto the pitch, Peruvian defender Fabio Gruber noticed that the young boy with Down syndrome accompanying him was feeling cold in the stadium. Without hesitation, he removed his own jacket and gently placed it over the boy’s shoulders.

In that simple act, football showed its heart.

Moments like this are why the world loves football.

As we head towards the 2026 World Cup, may we see more of this spirit on and off the pitch.

#FIFAWorldCup #fwc2026 ⚽❤️

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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