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The Reality Check

The Reality Check

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An AFL women’s league had arrived at last, but did this spell equality for women? Not by a long stretch.

In this fifth episode of ROAR Sam Lane digs into the growing pains, and shockwaves, catalysed by the AFLW’s debut season: the unpaid hours for players, coaches and support staff, the missing sanitary bins, and the instantly iconic ‘Erin Phillips kiss’ at the AFLW’s first competition best and fairest awards night.

Here you’ll hear from the AFLW’s first premiership coach and great disrupter, Bec Goddard, Debbie Lee, Peter Gordon and others, in this unfolding story of persistence, progress, pride and power.

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This recording would not have been possible without the generous philanthropic backing of Ian Darling and the Shark Island Institute.Recorded and produced by Mushroom Studios. Published by Podshape.

ROAR was recorded in Melbourne, Victoria, where the traditional owners of the land are the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge these traditional custodians and pay my respects to Wurundjeri Elders past and present.

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