Sport / 13 April 2022
A trio of sports news
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- AFL maestro Gillon McLachlan will exit at the end of the season. It won’t be a cakewalk for the 8-year veteran – he has a broadcast rights deal and a player collective bargaining agreement to crack on with. Maybe those deadlines rather than finishing up the job had him feeling a bit emotional?
- And the winner is… regional Victoria. Lock it in for 2026, the Commonwealth Games are comin’ to Melbourne and population centres around the state. We’ve already booked in for the lawn bowls in Bendigo…
- And fresh from the campaign trail, Coalition spokesman Simon Birmingham says cool your jets on legislating a ban on transgender women from playing women’s sports. “These are sensitive matters and … they should be explored properly with sensitivity through parliamentary committee processes.” On Monday, PM Morrison said he supported advocates of a ban.
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