David Rowe
@rowe_david
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Sydney much of the time.
Joined June 2011
Good piece by La Trobe Uni student @josh_grobbelaar, with a few words from me, about regulating and refereeing rugby union. I & many others increasingly turned off by arcane rules & constant whistleblowing. @westsyduics @AustSoc @HumanitiesAU @AcadSocSci
https://t.co/gmlrK8sDAN
upstart.net.au
Over the past few years rugby union referees have come under increasing scrutiny from players, coaches and fans for their on-field decisions. Is it the referee's fault or is the sport just too...
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Standing at the Threshold — Part One: what happens when a national ritual outgrows its story? On the threshold of this year's Melbourne Cup, here is the race that starts a videocast as @catharinelumby and I take on a somewhat tarnished sporting spectacle. https://t.co/BcLb6Zifjz
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I did a quickfire Guardian interview after Oz PM Albanese was criticised in Parliament for wearing a Joy Division Unknown Pleasures T-shirt (I have one too). I don't recall any outrage when Joy Division Orchestrated played the Sydney Opera House in 2019. https://t.co/P5Y5S7l32W
theconversation.com
The music alone, despite its unquestionable majesty, cannot entirely explain the enduring appeal of a band that existed for barely two years before its lead singer took his own life.
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Tonight ABC TV's Four Corners program asks why there's been so little government action to reduce online gambling harm in Australia. I posed the same question about the gamblification of sport last February. https://t.co/liPuVnB85J
@AustSoc @westsyduics @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
theconversation.com
There are deep historical and immediate political reasons why the online gambling advertising legislation has been bogged down.
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It Was 25 Years Ago Today: Revisiting Cathy Freeman’s Sydney 2000 Olympics Victory Attendance free; light refreshments Time: 4-6pm, Thursday 25 September 2025 Place: IPSQ, PC-01.6.53 (LS) Parramatta City Campus Please email d.rowe@westernsydney.edu.au if you’d like to attend.
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World Football Day, anointed by a United Nations resolution, is nigh. A chance to celebrate, critique and weigh things up - all at the same time. https://t.co/TZSzQtXDX5
@AustSoc @AcadSocSci @westsyduics
humanities.org.au
World Football Day means to bring people together peacefully; but what's being done to address the criticisms of the sport?
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Researchers and scholars in the area of community and rugby league, applications close on Monday 9 June 2025 for the Wes Smythe Award offering support for your valuable work. https://t.co/2oetqrjYTj
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After heavy lobbying by sport, gambling and media interests, is the fix well and truly in? Will the government’s online gambling advertising legislation ever eventuate? Don’t bet on it https://t.co/dWWHOSVMAj via @ConversationEDU
@AcadSocSci @westsyduics @AustSoc @HumanitiesAU
theconversation.com
There are deep historical and immediate political reasons why the online gambling advertising legislation has been bogged down.
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Divergent fates of laws on online gambling ads and social media age access for under-16s. Whatever happened to evidence-based policy? Sausages and cauldrons: Making law and policy in 21st Century Australia https://t.co/dRz1uNs43q
@westsyduics @AustSoc @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
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Laws banning online gambling ads are too "difficult" and "complex", but a half-finished bill banning under 16s from social media is passed in haste. What does this mean for democracy? Sausages and cauldrons: Making law and policy in 21st Century Australia
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Ten years since cricketer Phillip Hughes was fatally struck down. A Test match now on TV too. Revisiting this article from that time, the point that there is real flesh and blood on that screen still holds. @westsyduics @AustSoc @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
https://t.co/2HPGOCv4kM
theconversation.com
The first cricket Test match of the Australia summer is usually a happy occasion. Its retro sights of white-flannelled figures and the comforting sound of bat on ball herald the holiday season even...
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Congrats Deborah on a big (still continuing voluntarily, post-retirement) academic career that wasn't handed on the proverbial platter and had its fair share of battles on the side proven, I venture, to be unerringly the right one. @dm_stevenson
World renowned social scientist, Prof Deborah Stevenson, was accorded the title of Emeritus Professor in recognition of her significant contribution to the field of Social Sciences and to Western Sydney University 🎓 Dedicated to the discipline of sociology and governance, she
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Recently discovered by me. The person in the bottom left square seems especially familiar. @dm_stevenson
Thanks to all our Spring 2024 graduation speakers who delivered the Occasional Address for each ceremony. Your inspiring words & reflections are invaluable to our grads. Read more about their incredible and inspiring careers here https://t.co/htKu2mzLT1 Thank you to:
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Toby Miller convenes a podcast panel of 3 authors who chipped into his book challenging journalism to raise its game. https://t.co/2XC8hFJxG6 Bill Grantham, David Rowe, and Richard Maxwell on Why Journalism? https://t.co/lGpWjvwdNz
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Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2024: Mega Events, Media, and the Politics of Sport. Over 100 short, readable responses to the Paris Olympic & Paralympic Games by notable scholars from around the world. https://t.co/hXdluAgHBZ
@westsyduics @AustSoc @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
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Geoff Lawrence responding in characteristic good humour to ‘Tragi-Comic Reflections on Trust and Truth’, my take on his scarily witty book Societal Deception: Global Social Issues in Post-Truth Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). @westsyduics @AustSoc @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
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Geoffrey Lawrence launching his major book Societal Deception at Avid Reader, Brisbane. @AustSoc @AcadSocSci
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In Brisbane 16 September? A free book launch of Geoff Lawrence's powerful Societal Deception that improbably furrows brows while widening laughter lines. https://t.co/XtUZfUdUND
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Sport, media & gambling industries all fighting for turf. Irascible academic strikes back in lively radio program. Will the escalating cost of media sports rights change what we can watch? https://t.co/4qJvHIXQdf via @ABCaustralia
@westsyduics @AustSoc @AcadSocSci @HumanitiesAU
abc.net.au
Free to air TV was once the only place to watch your favourite football match, but that could change as streaming services and tech companies now compete for sports media rights. Sports bodies sell...
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Bookending the preParis24 Olympic podcast with Toby & Lindsay: how will these Games be remembered? https://t.co/kN1wCnqJ6p Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff and David Rowe on the Olympics—being there and being far away https://t.co/EFyaXlo9qb
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