Australian Sports In The 1950s

Earlier in the 1980s Australia formed an elite national sports system to compete with the best athletes in the world. In the 1990s Australia gained extensive amount of benefits from this system as Australia created a new generation of worldwide successful sports stars.

Some factors that shaped the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002 were the increased participation of women in the games due to women’s suffrage, the rising nationalism and superiority over competitors that took place, and the increase in trade and funding.

Firstly gender has a marked effect on Australian sports playing and spectating. At the very start of the century woman played few sports because sports were too physically demanding for the body. The widespread acceptance of medicalised perspectives on female bodies served to limit female sporting involvement for a very long time. International Review for the sociology of sport 50 (4-5)pp.430-436. In todays society, there is still continuous inequality throughout the sporting industry amongst athletes and sporting teams. With sport being a strong influence, there are many ongoing consistencies.

Australia in the early 1900s has developed a reputation as a ‘working man’s paradise’ for its greater opportunity to success and an egalitarian society. However not all workers proved this to be true. In order to determine this statement, Issues to be discussed include firstly the hours of work for different genders, secondly the working conditions and finally the dispute for the right to fair treatment to women and Aboriginal natives throughout the 19th century.

The way that America influenced Australian sport accelerated due to the new communications that became available such as pay TV and the internet. This enabled more widespread and frequent up to date broadcasts of American sport in Australian homes. There are many scholars that say in secondary sources that because new communications enabled more widespread broadcasting and the amount of money that went into the broadcasting different sports in Australian culture, it was the television stations that began to dictate the time of day that games were played. For example, football matches were traditionally played on Saturday afternoons. In the 1990s, however, rugby league and AFL matches were scheduled on Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday afternoons and sometimes even on Monday nights. This is what maximised the potential television audience and allowed more games to be broadcast. The media coverage in these influencing countries also led to increased rates of interest in the sports that were shown, such as basketball which had then led to it becoming the fastest growing sport in Australia. Broadcasting on television soon became a major source of income for most sports played here in Australia as television stations had paid large amounts of money to get the rights to broadcast a particular sport on their station. This also led to overseas merchandising and advertising, which meant that companies from around the world could pay to have their products displayed as advertising during a sporting match. Surveys that were conducted later into the decade showed that teen boys recognised famous sports person Michael Jordan over any other sports person. Along with this, when America had started to add cheerleaders, mascots, other ‘Americanised’ glitz and glamour and merchandise to their sporting

Introduction: What is this report about? Sports was as popular as ever in the 1950s. Baseball and boxing were astronomically immense, while football and golf were growing. The Incipient York Yankees dominated the decade as did my beloved Cleveland Browns. Rocky Marciano and Floyd Patterson were the boxing superstars of the 1950s and other sports like Pro Basketball and college basketball and Cricket.

When looking at the historical context of racism in sport in Australia, in the very beginning when European explorers and settlers encountered Aboriginal people from the 1600s-1800s, they often said that Aboriginal people were not humans but were actually animals - like apes or monkeys (Riceman, 2013). This stereotype has continued through time with racial remarks such as these have been directed at Aboriginal and Islander players. According to Tatz and Adair (2009) the history of Aboriginal exclusion from organised competitive sport has been well documented, these exclusions are based on spurious racial grounds such as they “smelled”, they “always won” and that they were “uncivilised” (Tatz & Adair, 2009, pp.3). One historical perspective of racial discrimination in Australian sports is the day Nicky Winmar, a famous AFL player stood up to racial truants from spectators in 1993.

National Rugby league (NRL) is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The number of elite players emigrating from Fiji, often temporarily but sometimes permanently, to metropolitan countries such as Australia is rising (Kanemasu & Molnar, 2012). Fijians have the natural skill and athleticism necessary to play high level NRL leading to a growing number of Australian clubs looking to Fiji for potential players. For Fijian nationals this gives them a chance to gain respect in the masculinity-laden Fijian culture and a means to provide for immediate and extended family (Guinness, 2009). However, life in metropolitan societies is different to the small villages of Fiji. Acculturation and conformity is generally demanded of these new players, the same rules, expectations and life styles also apply. Though, is adopting the cultural traits and social patterns of another ethnic group, like the Fijians do when joining an Australian NRL club, beneficial to athletic performance? Can compliance to the ‘white norm’ adversely affect native Fijian player’s motives for participating?

It’s interesting to know that the though it could easily be a result of negative economic factors that the sport has received a blow In popularity all over the planet due to the rising concern of the animals and there wellbeing (Bridle et al., 2015). Now in Australia it seems that the sport Is a major part of the Australians nationalism but it is also like that in other countries all over the globe (Bridle et al., 2015). Evidently, Australian intelligence can enlighten everyone as to why there is a large hole In the popularity of the sport

Sport plays a huge role in today’s society. It contributes to one’s health and fitness, social interaction, social and motor skills, patriotism, fun and entertainment. It also stimulates the economy and tourism leading to interaction between different cultures, for example the Olympics, and sport role models. Sports clearly are an important part of cultures and societies around the world as such events as the Olympics

Golf in Australia has been a prevalent sporting achievement for many years. The first documented mention of golf was in Scotland 1457 but only started in Australia in the early 1800’s. Ever since this milestone many Australians such as Adam Scott, Jason Day and Karrie Webb have been able to win many golfing completions worldwide. Recently a physical education class has chosen golf over dance and orienteering due to each and everyone’s attitude, behaviour, towards golf. “Access and opportunity is not the same for everyone, if a boy from Uluru wanted to go sailing he wouldn’t have the access to opportunity of facilities to compete.” stated by Mr Bahr 2015. A thoroughly explicit and scrutinized analytic exposition on access,

Women’s participation in sports has changed over the centuries. In ancient times, men dominated societies. Women were viewed as the caretaker, a provider for life. Women who did participate were criticized and were thought of as threatening. In 18th century America, women were considered inferior to men because of the belief that women are the weaker sex. A woman’s purpose in life was to take care of the house, children, and husband. When they did want to participate in recreational sport, they need to be able to negotiate with men and with other women because societies did not make it easy for women to participate. For example, there was a

The authors’ of this article used the Good Sports Program database and organized information from Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. There were only two sports used for this study, the Australian Football League, and the Cricket club were invited because of their contribution to the program. Within the AFL, there are a total of Forty-Seven clubs. Among the Cricket club, there are a total of eighteen clubs. There were thirty surveys given to each sport with random instructions on how to return the surveys.

An article by Dortch stated that almost 70 000 coaches and 116 800 officials had discontinued sport in the last five years (Bloomfield, 2003). ‘The declining number of volunteers and sport administrators to support physical activity, recreation and sport’ (Bloomfield, 2003) is a trend highlighted in the text “Australia’s Sporting Success: the inside story” published in 2003 by John Bloomfield. Bloomfield’s text features the implications of trends on the participation in physical activity, recreation and sport including strategies to improve them. This essay will discuss the ethical, moral, and social justice issues developed from the chosen trend and will be explored and applied to the individual motives, external influences, and the financial

Culture in sport has a positive impact on New Zealand society as it encourages other countries to show their heritage as we lead the way for biculturalism. As