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In 2007 she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the national time trial title she raced on the Australian national team and then professional teams in Europe and the United States representing Australia at three world championships. Copyright 2017 All Rights Reserved. Just a little over 18 months I want to dig a little bit deeper into what youre working on now because Australia of course seems in many ways to tell us and the rest of the world is one of the leaders when it comes to womens sports in terms of equality and opportunity facilities and so on. As long as many more episodes of different shows we have now over a thousand episodes and a global audience reach now of more than three million. They drop out at all different parts of their lives milestones of their lives for example university or pregnancy or menopause or an aged parts of their lives. So the bar was really high so I got my arse handed handed to me every single race. I would make some coffee and then I would eat some sort of cereal with yogurt and berries. She represented her nation at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 UCI Road World Championships. The upper limit of the lightweight category was 59kg, and the majority of women who rowed for Australia were heavyweights. Were seeing this more in the year in the UK and in parts of Europe with the different networks too. Women and what they when they dug down into these. For six years, she travelled the world racing in the Australian national team and Italian professional squads. You know we had yes we had the Olympics in 1956 we had the Sydney Olympics in 2000 we were one of the first countries in the world to have an institute of sport. Our guest this week is Dr. Bridie O'Donnell who is head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation in Melbourne Australia and she is here to discuss the issues affecting women and girls from her perspective. Until the next time. She would say why dont the race organisers just mandate to you know Euro sport that they have to show 30 minutes and they would say well you need to pay us and then say Okay fine. So for example there was a rather controversial commitment made by the federal government a few years ago where they said were going to give money to Fox Sports to focus on niche sports. I was going to get your reaction to that the topic of equality in sport as far as women are concerned now we wed look maybe at Australia maybe rightly or wrongly from here as being somewhat advanced you know making more strides shall we say than than they are than they are then there is happening elsewhere in the world and certainly keeping up with it. And so whilst we are we have scholarship programs that are offered. And when Peggy talks people listen. So weve invested twenty nine million dollars in female friendly facilities over the last four years which means upgrades to pavilions so that these girls toilets and change rooms better lighting better surfaces on the field so that more teams can play. We wont be able to convince our state politicians and federal politicians to invest in a womens football tournament. But you also then when you come out the other side of that and transition into civilian life as I like to call it you also realize just how unimportant that is as well. Now if we come back to Australia and we look at the WB ls a great example we have the fourth season of The Womens Big Bash. Pic: Collingwood FC/Instagram. The citation noted Dr O'Donnell's extensive work as a physician, professional athlete and gender equality expert, becoming the inaugural Director of the Victorian Government's Office for Women in Sport and Recreation . "My sister and I swam a lot in the ocean and did a bit of surfing, but I was not an athlete at all.". So youre right were seeing enormous change and you mentioned the M O U the memorandum understanding the Cricket Australia finally succumb to with the male and female cricket players here and look at the impact thats had on our Australian women. My sessions were always prescribed by Donna [Rae-Szalinski]; they were time trial-specific, and often focused on flat roads, whereas my teammate would put in four or five hours of slow pedalling, then maybe some climbs, usually across the highway towards Sienna. Its my life you know. Well it certainly teach to see problem solving skills and what we know theres data from an amazing piece of research that Ernst and Young did globally where they examined women in leadership positions all over the world. Where should there be time slots in broadcast opportunities and how can we get the free to air channels to show the nipple World Cup or why. We now had over 100 women last 18 months benefit from our scholarship program where they apply through a competitive process to get to five or ten thousand dollars to seek out an educational opportunity to advance their sporting career or their administration career whatever it is they do in sport and rec but we also know that systems need to change and thats where board quotas support it. And when Peggy talks people listen. Her legs already had veins showing, which is a sign of limited body fat; I was struggling to determine where she was going to lose nearly 10% of her body mass. I think no go do the deal with our channel 7 9 or 10 or ABC or SBS which are our national broadcasters because its not good enough anymore to just say oh thats not our job. It was free to air on Channel 10 Channel 10 did an amazing job not only of broadcasting it but as you know the power of social media of retweeting great little clips of some of the really strong athletic performances of women batting and bowling etc. Right there. And we have nowhere near enough adult women participating in organised sport. And when it is provided to them in a really classy package if you like it at the best stadium with the greatest amenity and the best TV coverage and free to air they will watch it. A friend of mine was doing a triathlon Id never ridden a bike before and Id never done a running race and Id only just swum for you know learning that school. She would also not need to, given the low intensity of the session. How do they respect and talk about women in their privacy of their own home. So seeing those women on the field on the pool deck beside the court looking authoritative I mean some of those great images of Becky Hammon whos been the assistant coach at San Antonio looking up to those extraordinarily tall NBA players knowing that shes been a former WNBA champion herself is really powerful. And weve seen more than one women a week killed by her former husband or intimate partner which is a devastating statistic in this country that we need and we are working very hard to remedy. And so whilst were not where we need to be in terms of pay equality and the number of women in leadership positions and the doors that are open to girls and women of all abilities and all genders and all racial backgrounds we are certainly much in a much better position than we have been even two years ago. Number two increasing the number of girls and women but mostly women in leadership positions in sport more CEOs but even more importantly more umpires coaches referees visible leadership of women on fields with whistles telling people what to do is an extraordinarily powerful debunking of this myth that women dont know how to rally a team or they dont know how to be harsh or they dont know how to be assertive and firm or they dont know how to bring together twenty five guys to get them to do something thats thats a complete myth as we all know. By mid-morning, it would be sunny and above 15 degrees, so we would train. Now shes a young AFL footballer playing for Carlton who has not only incredible strength and agility but she has this kicking style thats very characteristic for her. Were making sure we support every organisation and their attacks on. Well I was active as a kid but I wasnt good at anything and we certainly had a bit of a culture of high achievement when it comes to sport and particularly we know this from from the data that girls who are really great at sport get supported and cultivated not only by their parents but by coaches by schools. Bridie: In 2007, Cycling Australia put a call out to other sports for athletes with the potential to become time trialists. Shes very thoughtful and contemplative but shes extremely powerful. Bridie welcome to the program. Then it would have been an even more difficult. There are frequently motorbikes with cameras following us through the whole three hours and definitely on the footage of the climb at the finale and it was never like on television they didnt even do a 30 minute highlight package 10 years ago and I remember having a conversation with a woman director of a team over in Europe saying why is that. We had a team of champions and let me tell you we did not translate into a champion day. During my first week riding in Italy, after the team presentation and before we embarked on the season of racing up north, one of my teammates insisted she had to lose 5kg, otherwise everything would be very, very bad. In 2006, she finished Ironman Austria, Ironman Hawaii and rode a bike course record at Busselton Ironman. So its one of the biggest cities. A typical training day would unfold in a series of slow, generally silent manoeuvres. There was no chance I could have been a lightweight; I was too tall with healthy but heavy muscle mass that would have required me to radically transform my eating habits. In 2015 there was an inquiry into women and girls in sport and active recreation here in Victoria which was actually initiated by the then opposition government and then implemented by the current government. They could do it five years ago they would probably struggle and so well I think we need to determine the barriers. [00:22:31] And she said well you know what I did some digging and I found out that everyone checks their responsibility or their part to play in the way. Hello and thank you for downloading this episode of transcending sport here on WiSP Sports. And as the saying goes you know you cant be what you cant see that that access is critically important. So they have funded a national program around women in leadership and coaching theyve basically selected 16 scholarship holders from all over the country and are cultivating those. And I think also our sporting nature nation culture is a bit is a bit mythical. And unfortunately under that category of niche was womens sports. Bridie returned to full time work in 2013 as a behaviour change physician at Epworth HealthCheck and Epworth Breast Service, with a part time role teaching doctor-patient communication at Deakin University Medical School. [00:02:16] I began by asking Bridie how the organisation came about. So whilst we do have a reputation of being healthy and bronzed and tanned were in fact you know I think we have the third highest rate of childhood obesity in the world behind the US and Mexico. [00:39:10] Its just it can be overwhelming but I hope it can be rewarding too and youll youll see absolutely the changes. [00:37:23] It doesnt all have to look the same way but no one is fully prepared for her job. Thank you for joining me. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. We want fans to experience those games because that then also leads to TV viewership and that if youve never been to a WNBA game or at Suncorp if Nepal or if I thought w the atmosphere is wonderful and very family friendly nowhere near the same levels of aggression and violence.

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