2023 HomePlace Winter Newsletter

I am writing this in the excited glow of the achievements of Australia’s soccer team, the Matildas’, over the last month at the World Cup. Great for the Matildas, great for women’s sport, and great for sport as a whole. There have been a number of news items about how far they have come — from struggling to get a win seven years ago and having a maximum of a few thousand people watching them at a game, to 7 million viewers tuning in for the semifinal and more than 75,000 watching in person at the stadium.