'We are gladiators': the elite athletes looking to raise profile of women's sport | Louise Evans

Recently-launched photography campaign aims to change perceptions and stereotyping of female body image

When you telephone Rugby Australia, you are greeted with a recorded message: “Welcome to Rugby Australia, home of the Qantas Wallabies.” There is no mention of the Wallaroos women’s national team or the women’s rugby sevens Olympic champions.

On 26 November, sports columnist Peter FitzSimons wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald that our national cricket and rugby teams had lost everything except the will to live. The women’s national cricket team are two-time Ashes champions and four-time world T20 champions.

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