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Martin Flanagan

Martin Flanagan is a journalist and author who writes on sport, Australian culture and the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia.

James Hird would have received less public opprobrium had he robbed a bank

Taking aim at a soft target

Sport is like a mask that people put on to sound off about the world. Many people who consider themselves to be broad-minded will quickly reveal their prejudices when the subject turns to sport.

Robert Forster and Grant McLennan.

In tune with one another

You can read this as a book about the music industry. You can read it as a book about the mysterious synergies of art. Or you can read it is a book about the non-erotic love that can exist between men. It is a theme which arises in sport where it is quickly reduced to clichés and thereby belittled. This book is much more like the real thing.