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Footy crowds: what the AFL and NRL need to turn sport into show business

  • Written by Abdel K. Halabi, Senior Lecturer in Accounting , Federation University Australia

This week the deputy premier of New South Wales, home to most teams in Australia’s National Rugby League, suggested getting football fans back in the stands might be an issue of fundamental rights.

If 20,000 people could rally in support of Black Lives Matter in central Sydney, John Barilaro reportedly said, the NRL could handle similar in a...

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