Talk:Wikinews interviews academic Steve Redhead about Australian women's soccer

Journalist notes

I sent off questions to about 15 different people, including 4 women's sport bloggers, 1 journal, 5 academics and people various soccer federations in Australia. I received one response. It has been sent to scoop. The background knowledge from the questions is based on my PhD work knowledge on Australia's sporting culture. I discussed some of these with pi zero on scoop when I was trying to write the questions as neutrally as possible. This includes the fact that Australia has historically used sports as a form of gender normalizing female behavior. For example, women in netball and field hockey wear skirts. At the same time, they were actively discouraged or barred from participating in other sports.

I researched other parts to confirm things I already suspected, including levels of media coverage. (The Australian government has written reports on this topic which has found that women's sports get much less coverage than men's, and they have tried to create legislative solutions to enhancing the levels of coverage for women, which has led to additional airtime for women on SBS and ABC.) I did this on Newsbank Australia, with a search I did yesterday. The following results table gives a clue.

Global	Global	Global	Global	Global	Global	Australia	Australia	Australia	Australia	Australia
Matildas	Matilda's	Socceroos	Tim Cahill	Sally Shippard	Lisa De Vanna	Matildas	Socceroos	Tim Cahill	Sally Shipard	Lisa De Vanna
2013	616	115	7,025	1,221	17	102	609	6,959	1,318	17	101
2012	782	138	4,973	1,175	76	79	763	4,937	1,085	76	79
2011	1,111	202	6,161	2,055	132	246	1,097	6,083	1,783	132	244
2010	819	186	10,973	3,781	58	86	810	10,820	3,340	58	84
2009	635	142	8,192	2,584	17	64	633	8,126	2,127	17	64
2008	929	214	7,930	1,927	11	73	924	7,870	1,730	11	73
2007	919	125	7,538	1,823	59	169	908	7,419	1,598	59	157
2006	718	126	14,659	3,378	101	36	716	14,325	2,998	101	36
2005	453	112	7,133	1,532	35	17	448	7,020	1,350	35	17
2004	783	105	2,909	1,205	75	90	753	2,871	996	75	90
2003	548	122	2,291	124	13	23	539	2,213	191	13	23
2002	365	70	1,969	137		16	360	1,934	167	1	16
2001	236	55	4,436	78	1	4	234	4,339	138		4

I know the A-League is not making money. I've read about this extensively in the past, and had conversations with sport professionals in Australia. This is widely acknowledged, and is why one W-League team folded. Soccer is the fourth most popular football code in Australia by spectatorship. The ANZ Championship, the national professional netball league, is profitable. It is one of the few profitable women's teams in the world.

[http://www.ausport.gov.au/supporting/funding/grants_and_scholarships/grant_funding_report?FundingCategory=&RecipientName=&RecipientType=Individual&RecipientState=&FinancialYear=2013&Submit=Filter

DAS grants stand for direct athlete scholarships.]  If you make enough money play sports, you don't generally need one. But just to be sure, I found a list of all the members of the Socceroos and Matildas, and I went through the men's team. None have scholarships.  I got halfway through the women's team.  The table below shows some of that. 

Type	No.	Recipient Name	Recipient Type	Home State	Financial Year	Funding Amount
DAS	716	Sally Shipard	Individual	ACT	2012 / 2013	$2,000.00
DAS	722	Samantha Kerr	Individual	WA	2012 / 2013	$3,000.00
SLGSfW	95	Sally Shipard	Individual	ACT	2013 / 2014	$5,000.00
DAS	480	Kyah Simon	Individual	NSW	2012 / 2013	$3,000.00
DAS	613	Michelle Heyman	Individual	ACT	2012 / 2013	$4,000.00
DAS	509	Lisa de Vanna	Individual	WA	2012 / 2013	$3,000.00
DAS	45	Amy Chapman	Individual	QLD	2012 / 2013	$7,437.50
DAS	790	Tameka Butt	Individual	QLD	2012 / 2013	$2,000.00
DAS	804	Teresa Polias	Individual	NSW	2012 / 2013	$7,437.50
DAS	454	Katrina Gorry	Individual	QLD	2012 / 2013	$4,000.00
DAS	470	Kim Carroll	Individual	QLD	2012 / 2013	$4,000.00
DAS	181	Clare Polkinghorne	Individual	QLD	2012 / 2013	$4,000.00
DAS	802	Teigen Allen	Individual	NSW	2012 / 2013	$4,000.00

I checked the FIFA rankings to verify them.

--LauraHale (talk) 14:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

COI type statement: I should probably put in a disclaimer that this story is a way of trying to socially responsibly deal with some discussions I was involved on Wikipedia in relation to Australia national association football team where I have claimed the article is not neutral. I consulted with Pi zero and another accredited report to try to make sure my questions were not incredibly leading and to try to make them more neutral. --LauraHale (talk) 15:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Revision 2218533 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 21:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Had to go a bit far afield to verify the Socceroos' 2013 FIFA World Cup group. (Was also in off-wiki communication at the time, so it would have come right one way or t'other. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 2218533 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 21:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Had to go a bit far afield to verify the Socceroos' 2013 FIFA World Cup group. (Was also in off-wiki communication at the time, so it would have come right one way or t'other. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.