Tag: gender equity

Football And Morality.

I have been watching our sport of Australian Rules football since 1945, when I attended the famous Bloodbath Grand Final as an innocent nine-year-old. What I love about the game is the high marking , the precision kicking and the speed with which the ball transitions from the back to the forwards.

I support 17 games in both the AFL and AFLW as the best number of regular season games. (When and if a Tasmanian team joins the AFL, the figure 17 should be increased to 18.)

Every team should play every other team once. That’s the fairest and most sporting way.

I agree with my occasional fellow congregant Geoff Fox that “Fairness is fundamental to every effective social action we take and every social institution we wish to maintain. Do as you would be done by.”

But I suggest a modification to Geoff’s idea of 17 AFLW games in 2026 to a slower phasing in with 15 games in 2026 and 17 games in 2027.

Bill Uren, moral philosopher and scholar, Newman College. The 17th of November, 2025

WET WEATHER WOMEN’S FOOTY AT ITS BEST

At times the rain in yesterday’s Carlton Vs West Coast AFLW elimination final was close to torrential:

That did not stop the players from showing some magnificent skills. For i:tance there was this great mark and rapid play-on from Ella Roberts:

Impeccable ballhandling from Carlton lead to a great goal for Dayna Finn:

A goal slotted from well outside 50 lead to a type of joyous dancing celebration that men’s footy cannot match:

Three Carlton players in a row took very good wet weather marks. Ruck Breann Harrington. Midfielder Brooke Vickers. And finally forward Mia Austin.

Australia is supposed to be a fair first world society.

There is no excuse for not giving women who are as good at football as these ones are a 12 game season when the men get 23.

A 17 AFLW game season in 2026 must happen.

Geoff Fox, November 9, 2025, Melbourne, Australia