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Fans deserve fair play in major sports, not cheating and corruption

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageFans who go to the stadium or barrack from their living rooms need to be assured that sport is real. Shutterstock/Oleksii Sidorov

Why is global sport business booming and why does this come with the increasing frequency and growing size of integrity scandals of bribery, corruption and cheating?

This is something I have been giving serious thought to...

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The off-topic Conversation #92

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Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Lessons from history in how to run a good election campaign – or how to avoid a really bad one

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imageBill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull will be working hard to prevent the kind of errors and complacency that have tripped up leaders before them.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Federal elections are fecund sources of lessons for the political class.

From 1993 they learned not to make a big target of yourself as an opposition party. The Coalition’s Fightback! gave...

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