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Each year in Australia SBS provides great coverage of the Tour de France. Each year we sit up in the early morning and watch remarkable feats of endurance … and hope in the most naive way that we are witnessing the true expression of mano-a-mano. The Commons has some great images of the race many [...]

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Dean Shareski was my most recent prompt to think about hometown memories. In his post he points out that: Inspired by Doug Peterson, who was inspired by ZeFrank that then inspired Stephen Downes and others I’ve created a little video of my life growing up in Morden, Manitoba.  Thanks to the every growing database of [...]

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The University of Canberra has a hidden treasure, the Centre for Research and Action in Public Health (CeRAPH). In the past few months the Faculty of Health and the University have recruited two leading researchers to guide the Centre’s development. Rachel Davey is the Director of the Centre and Professor of Health Research. Helen Berry [...]

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This blog post pulls together some ideas for a presentation about the Australian Sport System (Unit 7978) to University of Canberra first year Sport Studies students. The topics of this presentation are the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and the National Sport Information Centre (NSIC). For my presentation to the group (on 18 February) I am [...]

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Introduction This has been a fascinating week for Australian sport. It started with Tiger Woods’ victory at the Australian Masters golf tournament and is ending with visceral debate about play, games, physical education and sport in Australian society. Although I have written two posts about the Independent Sport Panel’s Report I have been mindful of [...]

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