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11 Aug 2020
More work needed to eradicate discrimination in sport
Individuals at nearly half of Australian sporting clubs involved in a new Monash University and VicHealth study still believe that homosexuality is wrong or unnatural. These views are insensitive, do not belong in community sport and must change
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