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News Corp’s Australian chair claims ‘activist’ athletes hurt grassroots sport | Australia sport
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian chief executive has accused athletes of hurting sport when they become “activists” and reject sponsorships from mining or energy companies. The executive chair Australasia of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller, told a sporting leadership conference that athletes who reject sponsors don’t lose any pay but the “grassroots” sporting organisations suffer as a result of their activism. News Corp is the largest publisher in Australian with mastheads including the Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald Sun and news.com.au, and the pay TV channel Sky News Australia. Miller appeared to reference the withdrawal of Hancock Prospecting’s $15m sponsorship from Netball Australia last year after a player backlash. The backlash…
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Student teachers should spend more time on practical skills, less time on philosophy of education, panel recommends | Australian education
Student teachers should spend more time on practical skills and less time on the history and philosophy of education, an expert panel has recommended. The teacher education expert panel, set up by the federal government to improve teaching courses and address workforce shortages, released its discussion paper on Thursday, outlining plans to radically reform degrees. It proposed strengthening standards for initial teacher education (ITE) programs and placing greater accountability on universities to prove their success rates. The chair of the panel, the University of Sydney vice-chancellor, Mark Scott, said teaching degrees should be geared towards evidence-based, practical outcomes to best prepare teachers for the demands of the job. “We need…
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Australian Open: Women’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek, No. 7 Coco Gauff eliminated
CNN — Coco Gauff broke down in tears just after her straight sets defeat in the fourth spherical of the Australian Open up on Sunday, although fellow American Jessica Pegula progressed to the quarterfinals. The 18-year-previous Gauff shed 7-5 6-3 to Latvian Jelena Ostapenko on Margaret Court docket Arena and could not disguise her disappointment when talking to reporters about the match later on. Requested to demonstrate her frustrations, a tearful Gauff explained: “I consider it’s mainly because I worked definitely tough and I felt genuinely excellent coming into the event and I however feel good. I continue to really feel like I’ve improved a whole lot. “But when you…
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Former Australian Leader Kevin Rudd Appointed US Ambassador
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Former Australian Key Minister Kevin Rudd has been picked out as the nation’s subsequent ambassador to the United States. Primary Minister Anthony Albanese announced the appointment Tuesday, citing Rudd’s roles as chief and international minister as perfectly as his academic background as a China scholar and past work in the U.S. Albanese stated Rudd would start early future year. “Dr. Rudd brings unmatched encounter to the job,” Albanese explained. In a assertion, Rudd said he was tremendously honored to be picked out. He stated Australia faces the most challenging stability and diplomatic ecosystem it has in a long time. Rudd served as prime minister from 2007…
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Online streaming poses ‘existential threat’ to free sport on Australian TV, broadcasters say | Australia sport
The rise of online streaming services is a “real and existential threat” to free sport on television, claims the peak body representing Australia’s commercial broadcasters, which argues new entrants to the entertainment market should face tougher restrictions when bidding for rights to show important sporting fixtures. Free TV Australia has also called for more women’s sports to be shown on free-to-air broadcasts, including matches from the Matildas football team and all games in the women’s Fifa World Cup next year, in a review of the federal anti-siphoning list. “The real and existential threat to the anti-siphoning scheme is the one posed by the non-inclusion of online content service providers,” Free…
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