Chicks Talking Footy

15 Aug 2016

CTF welcome to AFL Pride Game Special Outside Broadcast & Sydney Swans Assistant Coach Brett Kirk

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CTF welcome to AFL Pride Game Special Outside Broadcast & Sydney Swans Assistant Coach Brett Kirk

On Saturday 13 August 2016, the very first AFL Pride Game was staged between St Kilda Football Club and Sydney Swans at Etihad Stadium.

The AFL’s Pride Game initiative aims to help break down social barriers and tackle homophobia.

AFL Football Operations Manager, Mark Evans, explained why the Pride Game was important to the AFL at the launch in July.

“We’ve got the greatest game in the world, the only indigenous game to Australia, and we want to make a statement that everybody is welcome in our game,” Mr Evans said.

“Regardless of your background, your gender, what culture you come from, your ethnicity or your sexual identity, you’re welcome to experience and celebrate Australia’s game.”

“It will raise some conversation that I think we need to have in the community, but it will also say to everybody, ‘this is a celebratory moment’, to make sure that our game is a game for everyone.”

The Chicks Talking Footy – JOY 94.9 team hosted a live broadcast from the stadium on the night, heard on JOY and across Australia on the national Community Radio Network.

In this podcast you’ll hear CTF captain, Fiona Newton, introduce the team; Rachael Hopkins, Bec Dahl, Susannah Mott and Danae Gibson. CTF’s Bree McAullay took her end-of-season trip early and was unable to make the broadcast.

CTF’s first guest was Sydney Swans Assistant Coach Brett Kirk.

Photos by JOY photographers Betty Sujecki and Hamish Blunck