The Commonwealth Games of exclusion: what are authorities so afraid of?
- Written by Colin Tatz, ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Sport, race and racism are entwined. It was always so, and it will always will be so – even in the Commonwealth Games, the event we dub the “friendly games”.
In a throwback to the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, preparations for next month’s event on the Gold Coast are forcing the homeless to move out of town, and even...
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