To be frank, you one-eyed Australian Football League supporters should finally back off.
As football fans we can't afford the luxury of your sporting blind spot.
Build your stadium, but don't expect us to be satisfied with an oval for a game that is played on a rectangle.
We've been telling you about the world game, football, for generations, but you continued to taunt and tease and stick your heads in the sand.
Read MoreThe Matildas' appeal, like many sporting teams in Australia, is underpinned by a wide-ranging influence, making emotional connections with the haves and have nots.
Read MoreI flew to Belfast; it wasn't a holiday.
I scattered my Dad's ashes in the River Lagan and buried my uncle.
It had been lashing down in Northern Ireland.
And then as I was flying home Sinead O'Connor died and I wondered what a conversation between her and Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries would sound like in death.
Read MoreThe dates of public holidays in Tasmania can be debatable.
But certainly not contentious like a recent call by an Irish Greens MP, Patrick Costello TD, to make the 12th of July an all-Ireland holiday.
Read MoreTaunting Australians about being from a penal colony is bizarre because it lacks logic and is far from truth-telling about the British's thirst to colonise often defenceless peoples and their lands.
After all, it was the colonising English who arrived on the shores of the great southern continent, claimed Terra Nullius (nobody's land), raised the Union Jack, and terrorised, enslaved, and murdered the locals.
Read MoreIn recent days, while we have been enjoying the contest for the Ashes between England and Australia in both men's and women's cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) received a report into racism, sexism and class-based discrimination.
The chair of the ECB penned an open letter to the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) chair, Cindy Butt, which makes for some extraordinary reading.
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