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Emily Moore
From Eye Rolls to Elation: How the Matildas and the Women's World Cup Changed the Game
21/8/2024
EDITORS NOTE
The Matildas, Barbie, Taylor Swift and more! Welcome back to the Stag newspaper! We hope you enjoyed the revamped first issue of our project. Thank you to everyone on the team who made this possible. The Stag Team is also thrilled to see the overwhelming amount of positive feedback for the Teacher Interview Column (Which unfortunately wasn’t possible this week, but life goes on).
Week 4 and 5 of Term 3 is a time when Cycle Tests and assessments come to haunt us. If you hate the pressure of cramming like me, you should get the exam prep started. Get home, rest up, sit down at your desk and Start. Trust me. Aside from the academic stuff, on behalf of the Stag team, I am excited to announce the Reader-Editor Interaction Form. This will be a multi-purpose survey where you can raise your opinions, pinpoint ideas for articles and make full-length submissions.
In the past, whenever my family switched on a soccer match, my typical response was a groan and an eye roll. After all, who really wants to watch players rolling on the ground and chasing after a ball? Turns out that I did, when Australia were thrones chasing, and actually winning. As the games rolled on, a strange nationalistic spirit overcame my body and before I knew it I was jumping up and down with the rest of my family as the Matilda’s won the penalty shoot out against France.
- Kayson Hu
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Australia is and has been for a while, a nation of sport enthusiasts. The popularity of sport in Australia can
partly be attributed to a warm climate that encourages people to get outdoors and be active. Not that my mother agreed when she was waking up on chilly Sunday mornings to cart me off to soccer. Pulling on the infamous puffer jacket and cupping her hands around a coffee to stay warm in the face of Sydney’s winter mornings, sport seemed to lose a little of it’s appeal. Despite the occasional cold, Australian pride is kept going by our well-loved national values like, 'having a go', ‘sportsmanship and 'egalitarianism on the field'. To hate sport is to be deemed un-Australian Unfortunately last year my soccer team was disbanded.
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