A World Cup lesson in multi-culturalism – An opinion piece by Aubrey Joachim While the Australian politicians, media shock-jocks and the north-shore and Turak types argue the down sides of migration, multi-culturalism and refugees, the world was given a world cup lesson in why and how these perceived negativities can be turned into a positive and how countries can benefit at a stadium in Moscow when the French national team played Croatia in the FIFA 2018 World Cup final. Seventeen members of the 2018 cup-winning French football team were either born overseas or have parents born overseas. They come from Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Algeria, Morocco and DR Congo – all former French colonies. It is being said that France spent half the nineteenth century conquering Africa so they could build their 2018 team. Of course as seen by the Western world today it is wrong for ...
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Oh it’s crying time again ….. Tears will not wipe out Cricket Australia’s woes – An opinion by Aubrey Joachim The Musketeers have spoken. The first was heartbroken that his hard earned spot in the Australian national team was given away free to another player. The (former) skipper was saddened over the effect his lack of leadership and undisciplined weakness had on his ‘old man’ and mum, and the last and most truant musketeer was sincerely apologetic to his wife and two daughters. Of course there was the token ‘written-for-them’ apology to Australian cricket fans, the cricketing world, kids and so on. However, the genuineness of their remorse must be judged by carefully observing the point during each of those apologies when their voices choked and the flood of tears gushed. Were those tears for us the cricket fans, the gentleman’s game, the Australian nation or for their personal considerations? ...
The Cricket Australia governance plot thickens Lessons in corporate governance – An opinion by Aubrey Joachim Last Saturday the whole world were given a front row view of how ‘not to cheat’ by apparently three musketeers of the Australian cricket team. This morning the whole world was given a lesson in how not to run a high profile organisation when the CEO of Cricket Australia gave a pathetic display in front of the world’s media. It made Mark Zuckerberg seem a star when quizzed about FB’s recent failures. And this is the problem with all sporting organisations which are today massive business organisations – lack of quality governance and managerial leadership. What the CEO did not realise is that his performance only ratifies what has been the root cause all along – governance failures from the very top. It is said that a fish rots from the head. In addition ...
Good governance is equally applicable in sports – fall-out from the great Aussie ball tampering scandal – An opinion by Aubrey Joachim Regulators of the game, Prime Ministers, sponsorship stakeholders and the sporting public are all concerned and disturbed by a little piece of yellow tape shoved down the pants of a cricketer. Seems pretty bizarre, right? However, when such an incident has virtually brought a country to its knees by embarrassing it in front of the whole world and potentially has multi-million dollar impacts across a number of fronts it is a serious concern. How could such a situation have arisen in a space where Australia has always considered itself to be world leaders – not only in the context of its ‘perceived’ superiority on the field of play but also the moral guardians of the spirit of the game? In Australia cricket is not merely a sport but ...
