From the Ground Up
Sport is serious foreign policy.
Our essay series on sport, development and Indo-Pacific diplomacy. The thinking behind every ball we deliver.
Diplomacy
Soft power in a mesh bag: sporting equipment as Australian statecraft
From ping-pong diplomacy to DFAT's Sports Diplomacy Strategy 2032+: why the humble ball punches above its weight in foreign policy, and what a youth-led non-profit can do that governments can't.
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The green and gold decade belongs to the Pacific too
Brisbane 2032 is a once-in-a-generation platform for Australian sport. The question that will define its legacy: does it reach past the stadium gates, and past our shoreline?
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What a soccer ball actually buys: play, capability and childhood
Through the lens of Amartya Sen's capabilities approach, a $15 ball is infrastructure for a childhood, and one of the cheapest development instruments on earth.
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From ideas to deliveries
We don't just write about it.
Every argument in these essays is being tested in the field, one delivery at a time.