m0nster critiquing the BMI of Donald Trump is possibly one of the greatest glass houses moments in living memory.

Writing this in between stuffing down 3 cream donuts. Strange times indeed.

Writing this in between stuffing down 3 cream donuts. Strange times indeed.

His last x-ray came back from radiology.
Six Krispy Kremes.
No evidence of teeth marks.

Correction

It’s not the stat, but the latest prediction of GDPnow by the Atlanta Fed.

Ramirez is a hypocrite.

Over at Tim Blair’s blog:

Milligan’s Mission
The ABC’s Four Corners this week demanded to know why gay AFL footballers aren’t telling everybody they’re gay.

It’s hard to over-emphasise just how pervasive the silence about homosexuality is in the AFL. Repeatedly, I am told as I investigate this story for Four Corners, that “it’s very sensitive, Louise”.

It’s 2023: Australia has marriage equality, there are people in historically socially conservative institutions like the military and politics who are in same-sex relationships and publicly so. Every other major male sporting code in the world has had a gay player. What is it about the AFL?

Maybe, on just this one subject, the AFL (and, more importantly, its players) don’t wish to clamber aboard the identity politics bandwagon – presumably because so little room remains.

Meanwhile, we may ask: What is it about Louise Milligan?

I am not a gay woman. I can’t know just how corrosive it is to walk in the hyper-masculine world of football as a gay man, hearing deeply offensive homophobic slurs … or to see regular gay jokes and abuse on footy media.

Regular gay jokes and abuse on today’s woke footy media? Evidence, please.

I can’t know what it’s like to look around a change room, a playing field, a football function, or a commentary box, and not see anyone who seems to be like me.

She’s right. Very few people on football fields or in commentary boxes have lost major court cases and then had their costs covered by taxpayers.

One thing is certain: The silence is palpable. When we ask every single club if they can provide players to speak about these issues, not one accepts.

Is Milligan aware that AFL clubs are kind of busy during winter?

Current and former players I meet with start off very keen and tell me they’re so glad I’m tackling this issue, and then many of them just make excuses or disappear.

Due diligence, most likely. Google is their friend.

Then there’s the long-retired player who is gay, a tall man with a gentle countenance. When I introduce myself, I see a hint of hyper-vigilance flicker through his eyes.

As well it might. He possibly knows how Milligan treated George Pell.

I feel terrible and want him to know I’m not that kind of journalist … I assure the former player I’m not here to “out” anyone.

She just wants players to out themselves. It’s the entire purpose of her piece. Milligan does very much appear to be “that kind of journalist”.

I speak to player managers, imagining that if a gay player was going to tell anyone, it might be them.

Doesn’t want to out anybody – but trawls player reps for gay gossip. Makes sense.

One manager tells me he hasn’t had a single male player tell him that he is gay or bisexual in 20 years — and, he adds, he’s had 600 or 700 through the door.

“Not one?” I ask, incredulous. Not one.

This is hilarious. Milligan has just discovered that other workplaces are not as grimly sex-focussed as the ABC.

The manager probably also draws a blank when it comes to players telling him they hold a forklift license, remember birthdays or text entirely in lower case. No rule says you’ve got to talk about every damn thing.

lmost every insider I speak to says clubs are now very nurturing places, that there are players who are out to their teammates, that welfare is the top priority, and no one should be coaxing them out of the closet.

At which point Milligan should’ve ended her assignment and picked something else to bore her audience with. Instead, we shortly hear from Milligan-approved gay ex-amateur player Jason Ball:

“I think that sexuality is sometimes viewed as something that is private and nobody’s business, but it’s actually not the case, when you think about it, for straight people. These things are very visible.“

Ball – a one-time Greens candidate – says it “is not the case” that sexuality is “nobody’s business”.

Milligan is fine with that. “Footballers are public figures,” she argues. Furthermore, some of their “wives and girlfriends” have built careers “as social media influencers”.

Their sexuality, according to Milligan, is therefore fair game.

But something later happened to Milligan – a public figure and media influencer herself – that changed her mind.

Following her Four Corners episode, an unpleasant and intrusive person slammed Milligan on social media. “Makes you wonder what goes on within her private life and in her bedroom,” he wrote. “She should come out as bi.”

Milligan’s response:

My sexuality is none of his business.

Good call. Don’t let anyone push you around, Louise.

If it’s about excess hair product the entire AFL is gay.
Briefly discussed this at CL’s
I’m sick and tired of people being identified solely by their sexual attractions.
And I’m sorry Jason, it might be ‘visible’ to you but maybe not everyone thinks only about whether other people are available for a quick one.

Oh go away minty, you only come here to irritate people when you think you’ve on a winner.
Putin’s gone!
Trump’s fat!

It’s fun when it looks like even more people shall be killed?
You have a warped idea of what should be entertaining.

I was wondering about the three tiered entry fee Lizzie mentioned.
Does one simply state they are aboriginal to get the super discount, and are concessional entrants required to show proof, what if one is both aboriginal and a concession card holder?
Millionaires getting a bigger discount that the unemployed because of race?
Can this be expanded to qantas airfares, movie tickets, train travel?
Pay the rent!

Meme;

https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/60eddad4-631a-4ee0-98ce-82750b09b223?j=eyJ1IjoiaG85YmoifQ.bMnuNm5GLk5MFSCvcs0G5r0y-jYhpNwjaZVrL0QBwGM

Nuts. Australian paywalled btw.
Emails leaked to the BBC claimed the museum was alerted by an antiquities dealer to items being sold on eBay in 2021 and ignored the report.

Cassie, I am attempting it again:

Harry Garside: Justice, lies and a knockout videotape
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN COLUMNIST
and
STEPHEN RICE
NSW EDITOR
9:13PM AUGUST 25, 2023
When star boxer Harry Garside locked himself in the spare room of a Sydney apartment and hit “send” on his phone, launching off to his mum a 33-second video of an argument with his girlfriend, he couldn’t know he’d just saved his boxing career.
Not that it would spare him being very publicly arrested and shamed for the “assault” he had just filmed; not that it would stop Boxing Australia suspending him from competition; and not that he will ever recoup much of the $500,000 he lost in sponsorships.
But the cautionary tale of how Garside came so close to losing everything – including his freedom – is the latest of many that raise uncomfortable questions about whether police and prosecutors are properly investigating allegations before pursuing charges.
As the now 25-year-old boxer discovered, even a petty argument – in the hands of a skilled liar – can be ­manipulated to destroy a career.
The colourful, heart-on-sleeve athlete was on the ascent, both in and out of the ring, when his ­trajectory was suddenly and stunningly derailed.
Garside had won gold at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics – Australia’s first Olympic boxing medal in three decades.
But it was his flamboyant personality and his challenge to gender stereotypes that were gaining him wider attention.
The one-time plumber has raised eyebrows in the boxing community by taking up ballet to develop his strength – mental and physical. He sometimes paints his nails and wears gowns and dresses to Sydney’s red-carpet events.
During a stint on reality show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! Garside declared he was straight and “very comfortable in my own skin”, but had ­experienced a lot of homophobia.
“It has been quite an interesting rollercoaster for me over the last few years, I guess embracing more of my feminine energy, which is ­actually where I think I sit more often,” he said.
Garside turned up at the GQ Men of the Year Awards last year dressed in a pleated grey skirt, long black boots and bare-chested under a formal black jacket.
On that occasion Garside was arm in arm with his then girlfriend, Ashley Ruscoe.
Ruscoe is a wellness coach and fitness expert, with more than 26,000 followers on Instagram, thanks to a role on the 2019 season of Ten Network’s The Amazing Race. The now 35-year-old martial arts expert – with a black belt in karate – runs a self-defence business called Hit Like a Girl.
A fixture on Sydney’s social scene, Ruscoe had been in ­relationships with a number of high-profile men, including Sidney Pierucci, her partner in The Amazing Race.
That relationship ended ­unhappily when Ruscoe claimed Pierucci had assaulted her in her Bellevue Hill apartment in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Pierucci was charged but escaped without a conviction after pleading guilty to a minor charge.
Ruscoe provided regular updates on the scandal to the media, including an interview with The Daily Telegraph in which she ­announced: “I’m definitely back on the scene … Guys are relentless, shameless, they just go for it. I love it.”
But when she and then 23-year-old Garside met on Instagram in early 2021, it seemed to be love at first sight, despite the nine-year age gap. When the boxer left for the Tokyo Olympics, they spoke every day on FaceTime.
The pair met up again in Sydney, and in March last year Garside moved into Ruscoe’s Bellevue Hill apartment.
Earlier this year, Garside decided he was going to devote himself to winning gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Ruscoe was unhappy. They’d talked about having children, but for Garside that was much further down the track. He had a dream and was intent on pursuing it.
The couple announced they were splitting up but continued to meet – and have sex.
On March 1 this year, when Garside returned from a month-long trip to Europe, Ruscoe sent him a text saying: “Ok, let’s try really rough sex, Like semi bash me hahaha, Like maybe a slight black eye.” Garside declined. Later that day they met at the apartment to discuss their relationship. They had an argument. It started outside the flat, continued inside and became increasingly heated.
Garside won’t discuss the incident while court proceedings are afoot, but the details are now all on record.
Ruscoe grabbed a suitcase Garside hadn’t unpacked from his trip and threatened to take it outside and burn some of his things. Garside, concerned things were getting out of hand, recorded two short video clips on his phone. Garside says he made these recordings because he was worried Ruscoe would try to suggest he was the aggressor.
The first video shows Ruscoe coming out of a room towards Garside holding the suitcase, then dropping it when she realises he is filming her. After Garside retreated into the bathroom the second clip, which runs for 33 seconds, shows Ruscoe lunging to grab his phone as he pleads with her to stop.
“You’re psychotic,” Garside says, “stop f..king touching me like that … stop, stop, stop, leave me alone, leave me alone.”
When Garside tried to leave the apartment, an increasingly aggressive Ruscoe shut the front door and told him he couldn’t leave until he deleted the videos of her.
Garside headed for the spare room, locked the door, and quickly sent the videos to his mother via Facebook.
When he unlocked the door and came out, Garside showed Ruscoe he was deleting the videos.
Only then did she let him leave the apartment.

Cont/

Going to police
Kate Garside was at work in Melbourne when she saw a message from Harry pop up on her phone.
That wasn’t unusual. Harry happily admits to being a mother’s boy. Kate, a business manager, is often ringside at his fights, although she finds it difficult to watch, even now.
Harry, one of three boys, began boxing when he was nine but Kate had hoped it was “just a phase”.
“He says it was to show his brothers and his dad that he was actually tough because he was into doing things with me more than going out playing with their dad, fixing cars and motorbikes and doing that sort of thing,” Kate says. “He wasn’t into that, so he wanted to get into boxing to prove to his brothers and his dad that he was a real man.”
Kate travelled to Perth last weekend to watch her son win another fight on the way to his Olympic dream. “I still hate watching it. He was fighting last night and I couldn’t even watch it on the screen,” she says.
Back in March, when Kate clicked open the video Harry sent, she thought at first it was a prank, because Ruscoe appears to be laughing.
“I went on doing whatever I was doing, and then something made me think, ‘no, that’s different’,” Kate says. “So I turned on the volume and watched it in full and couldn’t believe what was going on.
“She was attacking him inside the bathroom on the video. So I was very shocked by what I saw. And rang Harry and he didn’t answer his phone. My boss was there and the girl that I work with, and they said ‘you need to save those videos’.”
Kate called her son after he’d left the apartment.
“I was worried about him. She was saying, ‘go on, Harry, go to the cops because they won’t believe you. They’ll believe me. I’m the girl’.”
“Harry just said ‘I couldn’t fight back because I’m a boxer; even if I had just tried to stop her with my hand, I would’ve been charged with assault’.”
The next day, March 2, Garside told Ruscoe he’d sent the video to his mother. By now he’d also decided it would be wise to record their conversations.
AR: What’s the video say?
HG: It’s a video of you attacking me.
AR: It’s a video of me, I could literally take you to court for this.
HG: Ok, do it then, do it
AR: 100 per cent. I can call the cops right now, and they will take you. This will go on your record and this will go straight to the Daily Mail and this will ruin your f..king image. I could literally with this call ruin your career, trust me.
HG: I haven’t done anything wrong.
AR: It doesn’t matter, Harry, ’cause once it’s out there and it’s in the newspaper, that a boxer got dragged out from my house, it doesn’t matter that you (haven’t) done anything wrong, this will go against your career
HG: I haven’t done anything wrong
AR: Do you want to go down this path, ’cause I will literally do it right now.
HG: Do it then, I have never once touched you
AR: It doesn’t matter if you haven’t touched me, if you get caught, if I call the police and say he’s here and I’ve shown them all messages of me saying get out of my house, get out of my house, please leave me alone, if I show them those messages to the police, they will drag you out
HG: Ok
AR: I’m not kidding, Harry, you don’t want to go down this path it will f..k up your career and it will … f..k up your reputation.
Ruscoe continues to taunt him that no one will believe him because he’s male and a boxer.
She warns him not to talk about her on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, the TV show he’s about to film in South Africa.
“If you say anything on I’m A Celebrity, I will come for you. I will come for you. So make sure you say nothing,” she tells him in one exchange.
It wasn’t a far-fetched fear. Garside likes to talk. He describes himself as an over-sharer. But he wasn’t about to go on a TV show, he says, and trash a woman he once loved.
Garside stayed at the apartment in the spare bedroom for a couple of days after the argument, then moved out to an Airbnb “because it was a bit volatile inside the apartment”.
Over the next couple of weeks the pair nevertheless met up and had sex several times.
“Things seemed fine, things seemed okay,” Garside says, “but we obviously knew that the relationship wasn’t salvageable.”
The last time they had any contact was on March 15, when Ruscoe sent him a parting shot:
“Think about what you’re doing, Harry. This will ruin your career, as I will 100 per cent charge you with common assault and then sue you for defamation. And you can say goodbye to any brand deals and public image.”
Garside left for South Africa three weeks after the incident, on March 25, to film I’m a Celebrity.
Ruscoe went to the police the same day.
Kate Garside has no doubts why she did it.
“I think she was in such fear that Harry would say something that it would ruin her reputation, that she sort of thought, well, I’ll throw the first punch here and go to the police.”

Cont/

A Daily Telegraph photographer was at the exit and took shots of Garside being led into a police car. Someone was also shooting video on a phone.
Garside doesn’t believe the paper just got lucky.
“If I was a betting man I’d definitely put money on the media being tipped off,” he says.
“She planned it,” says Kate Garside. “She waited until he left to make the allegations. Why was it such a public display of arrest on her word of him spitting? That, surely, doesn’t warrant what happened to him so publicly?”
The detectives took him to Mascot police station, where he was fingerprinted and had mugshots taken before being placed in a cell for two hours.
Garside was charged with common assault and served with an apprehended violence order.
When he was released, still clutching the Akubra he’d worn on the reality show, there were TV cameras outside the police station.
The police had taken his phone, so he couldn’t contact his worried family waiting in Melbourne.
Garside’s arrest was featured on the front pages of The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun in an article written by the same journalist who previously broke the story of Ruscoe’s charges against Sidney Pierucci.
Another piece featured a profile of Ruscoe with what appeared to be a set-up paparazzi-style shot of her “snapped in Surry Hills” the day before.
Ruscoe was also interviewed by a reporter from the Seven Network who seemingly “door-stopped” her. Asked if she was surprised Garside had been charged, Ruscoe replied: “No.”
Garside’s lawyer, Rebekah Giles, later noted in a six-page letter to Ruscoe setting out the false statements she made to police: “You did not look surprised to be interviewed, and your appearance gives rise to an inference that you in fact prepared for and planned being so interviewed.”
Garside arrived in Melbourne shattered. His brother and sister-in-law had had a baby while he was in South Africa and he went straight to visit his new nephew.
“He was trying to be all jolly because he was meeting his nephew for the first time but he was not himself, he wasn’t good,” says Kate. “And he really questioned everything. His reputation was hanging in the balance and he just didn’t know what to do.”
Garside was suspended by Boxing Australia and the Victorian Institute of Sport, where he had a scholarship. His Olympic dream looked to be over.
The Australian Olympic Committee’s team membership agreement states athletes must not be convicted of or charged with any serious offence involving violence, or engage in any conduct which brings their sport into disrepute.
Now Garside was on the front page of newspapers around the country with headlines that read: CELEB TO SUSPECT and BOXING STAR’S DV SPAT. Camera crews and photographers were camped outside the family home in Mooroolbark.
Almost overnight, he’d lost close to $500,000 worth of sponsorship deals.
“I understand the world we live in now and no company can be seen to be supporting domestic violence and I totally understand that, but it was a stressful time,” he says. “I was a kid who grew up with not much money and I was starting to get opportunities, and to lose them, I was so shattered and heartbroken. I felt like I was just coming back to square one.”

Arsehole from last night:

Trump should commit even more crimes, then he would totally win the election!

What crimes has he committed dickhead?

Catturd ™
@catturd2

World’s biggest backfire.

What we learned from the first round of Covid hysteria: Will you be fooled again?

Boambee it was reported widely at 215 pounds.
Why does anyone care*
*all publicity is good publicity

New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

Your very honest & caring governments

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/thats-why-bills-are-going-up-so-much-bowen-thanks-for-nothing.html

Interesting…world’s “most often cited in academic papers” wildfire researcher from UTAS interviewed on ABC re what happened on Maui.

On record as an AGW worrier, he yet refuses to be drawn into the interviewer’s “this is a result of climate change and we’re all going to die” narrative and says the loss of life and destruction could have been avoided if proper land management practices and other preparations had been in place, which Hawaiian firefighters have been requesting for years.

He then states that the same apathy among relevant government authorities exists here, despite the Black Summer fires and subsequent inquiry recommendations.

Yeah. Read on, James Campbell reporting:

Voice supporters believe Peter Dutton — and a truckload of cash — is the key to them winning the referendum.

Meanwhile, the No case believes it just has to concentrate on winning over South Australia or Tasmania to defeat the Voice.

Next week Australians will officially learn when they will go to the polls, when Anthony Albanese travels to the outer Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth on Wednesday to finally reveal the Voice referendum will be held on October 14.

The announcement of a six-week sprint to the finish line will come as a relief to both the Yes and No campaigns, which have been circling each other all year.

The Saturday Telegraph spoke to insiders in both camps, as well as the Labor and Liberal officials who will be mobilising their party campaign resources, to find out how each of them plans to win.

They two sides agreed that, despite having millions more dollars in their war chest than their opponents, the Yes23 team’s job is much harder.

The reason for that is a structural one — the Constitution says that for a referendum to pass it needs to get not just a majority of votes across all of Australia, it also needs a majority of votes in a majority of states.

This means that not only does Yes have to win four states while No only has to win three, it also has to campaign everywhere.

“We need to win four states and fifty per cent plus one,” a senior Yes23 strategist said.

“We can’t write off a state, because we need it to form the national majority.

“So we can’t just say we won’t advertise in Queensland but we’ll buy 100 per cent of the Tasmanian market.”

This advantage the constitution hands the No case is twofold.

Because No isn’t worried about the national total, not only does it not need to bother spending any money at all in the states it knows it can’t win, it doesn’t need to spend a lot of money in those states it reckons are already in the bag.

“Our plan from the start was to run a battleground state strategy,” a spokesman for the peak No campaign body, Australians for Unity, explains.

“The pathway for us to win was always to knock over three battleground states out of Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. That hasn’t changed.”

At this point the No case believes it is well ahead in WA and Queensland, meaning it can concentrate on winning in Tasmania or SA.

What has changed in recent months, its spokesman says, is the national polls that suggest a majority of voters are now against the Voice.

“I think they’ve found themselves in a place they didn’t expect to be,” the No spokesman said.

“Their problem is not only are they losing in a couple of battleground states, they’re behind nationally. Not only do they have to defend the battleground states, they also have to defend their national vote.”

Yes23 campaigners are under no illusions they face a hard task turning this around, but they maintain that all is not lost. The reason for this is the continued widespread ignorance about the Voice.

“A lot of people don’t even know that the referendum is coming,” a Yes23 strategist said. “They don’t have the time or the bandwidth.”

Low-information voters, as they are known, have long been a problem for both sides of politics, but the level of ignorance the campaigns are dealing with is much higher than for a general election.

“Even they know they have to vote every three years or there’s an issue that they’re interested in, but this is different; in the big southern capital cities a lot of people don’t even know an Indigenous person,” the Yes23 strategist said.

Labor and Liberal Party officials agree the problem of voter ignorance is worrying, and is getting worse.

“The number of people in that camp is higher because of streaming, which means you can tune out the news.

“We’re now seeing people in (focus) groups who don’t know who the premier is,” one official said.

The Yes23 camp hopes its financial advantages will give it a better chance of reaching these voters than the No camp. It will be targeting young people and women.

The Yes23 strategist said the sexes reacted very differently when they were confronted with information about Indigenous disadvantage.

“Women are much more empathetic, whereas men tend to put the onus on fixing their problems back onto them and personal responsibility,” he said.

Polls consistently show that young people are most likely to vote Yes, but the campaign is aware they are also much more likely to be tuned out from the news cycle — and so there is a danger they might not vote.

“With young people, it’s about making them aware of the issue and why it’s important and how they can do something — framing it (voting) as an action point,” he said.

The campaign will also be relying on what he calls “weight of messaging”, a polite way of saying they plan to outspend their opponents, although he said reports of Yes23’s campaign war chest had been exaggerated. “We’re not going to spend $100m,” he said.

As the audience for broadcast TV has declined, people have stopped reading the mail, and even Facebook and Instagram have begun throttling political content, the political world will be watching what works in the referendum as they get ready for the next federal election.

“The big unknown is how much their money will help them, how effective their advertising is and how willing people are to change their mind,” a senior Liberal said.

A senior Labor official said the Yes campaign would be seeking to exploit the unpopularity of Peter Dutton.

“We are confident that one of our strong arguments that we will deploy at some point is about Peter Dutton,” he said.

Referring to the Opposition Leader’s decision to boycott the 2008 parliamentary apology to the stolen generation during the Rudd government, the official said he “has a long history on these matters” and that he “wants to close the door on better outcomes” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Referring to the Opposition Leader’s decision to boycott the 2008 parliamentary apology to the stolen generation during the Rudd government, the official said he “has a long history on these matters” and that he “wants to close the door on better outcomes” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

“People respond to that argument,” he said.

Both sides also said the lack of engagement with the issue among a large section of the population meant the way the two sides performed “on the day” could have a big impact.

“There will be a lot of people turning up to vote without any idea what they are going to do,” a No campaign spokesman said.

To win the floating voter on the booths, both sides have enrolled armies of volunteers.

What both sides agree on is that despite the recent tilt in polling towards No, either side can still win.

“I had a lot of people saying in January there’s no way we could win and now the same bunch of people are saying we can’t lose. And both these scenarios are wrong,” a No campaigner said.

Much to unpack as they say in the classics.

New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

It’s a mild headcold.
If you’re terrified and planning for more jabs, you don’t need another booster.
You need a lobotomy.https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1695145242733748411

the gucci gnome, by her own admission, had no idea about her 251 ancestry until she’d turned 16

Apparently, her mother took one look at her, when she was born, and handed her to relatives to be raised – the “Gucci gnome” turned up on mother’s doorstep several years later, to be introduced to several brothers and sisters.

Yes, he warned of more fires threatening suburban & town developments, Lizzie.

His message was we can substantially mitigate the risk if we have the will to do so and approach it with a sense of urgency that is presently absent.

I’d suggest allowing rural property owners to clear fire breaks around their properties for starters, rather than fining them for cutting down eucalypts.

Referring to the Opposition Leader’s decision to boycott the 2008 parliamentary apology to the stolen generation during the Rudd government, the official said he “has a long history on these matters” and that he “wants to close the door on better outcomes” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

“People respond to that argument,” he said.

So phucking what? He didn’t attend, to what Rudd calls his greatest moment in Parliament, some made up bullshit? Completely within his rights to do so and it doesn’t make him a racisty racist.
“People respond to that argument…”
How? Do they agree with Dutton? This is over the top.
I’m thinking now that there will be adverts having Dutton in sepia tone with a big red RACIST stamp appearing on the forehead.

Albo must address this. Or not, which is more preferable:

Rugby Australia is in danger of a mass exodus of players a year out from the 2025 Women’s World Cup and the rival NRLW stands to reap the rewards.

A breakdown in the relationship between Wallaroos players and the governing body over the past week has caused players within the national women’s rugby union side to consider making a code switch as soon as 2024.

Tensions have been building between the national women’s players and RA over some time, and a handful of players had already made the transition into rugby league for this NRLW season, including Mahalia Murphy (Eels), ex-Wallaroos skipper Grace Hamilton (Roosters) and Grace Kemp (Raiders).

Or the ladies can play soccer.

The real crime monty you turd.