Sporting world is punch-drunk on violent spectacle

Mark Kenny
Updated June 13 2022 - 5:06pm, first published June 11 2022 - 5:30am
Paul Gallen (right) throws a right at Randall Rayment during their heavyweight bout during "Footy Show Fight Night" in Sydney in 2015. Picture: Getty Images
Paul Gallen (right) throws a right at Randall Rayment during their heavyweight bout during "Footy Show Fight Night" in Sydney in 2015. Picture: Getty Images

Some contradictions hide in plain sight, so woven into our cultural norms as to go unnoticed.

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Mark Kenny

Mark Kenny

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Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday.

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