Graham Gorrel's Friday On My Mind | OPINION, August 11, 2017

August 11 2017 - 8:00pm
Is Australian sport still hitting its mark?
Is Australian sport still hitting its mark?

THE deaths of three great Australian sports people in the past 10 days - Les Murray, Mervyn Rose and Betty Cuthbert; a quote from the veteran Fairfax journalist and rugby league coach, Roy Masters, and the end of the worst industrial confrontation in Australian cricket has prompted discussion about where sport is headed in our nation and is it the right path. In one of his finest articles, Masters wrote: “The brutal negotiations between CA and the ACA and the stratospheric salaries paid, has produced the perception that Australia’s favourite summer pastime is now more of a business than a sport”.

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