Bread and circuses, profits and bad models

May 31, 2026

Thank heavens for a great piece about the most sacred and unexamined Oz sacred cows. Apart from the monetising of tribal belonging: Two things: 1 the major winter sports in Australia rely on one person physically downing another person using physical strength. Meanwhile we have an epidemic of domestic violence with physical solving as a method of solving problems. And 2: sports stars once posed as role models for the young are often well short of the mark in greed or behaviour.