The Ticket Podcast

ABC

Tracey Holmes presents The Ticket, a weekly in-depth analysis of the major issues in sports business, politics and governance.

  1. 25/11/2023

    The Ticket Final Edition - What's the Future?

    The final episode of The Ticket takes a broad look at the future - of the Olympics, of Australia's place in the world game of football, of the rise and growing power of the athletes' voice and of Oscar Pistorius - a former icon of Paralympic sport who is soon to be released from jail after serving his sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

    59 min

  2. 18/11/2023

    Sport: Double Standards, Displaced People, Dialogue for Peace

    Sport's role in a turbulent world - how the Palestinian men's team represents more than football, the role of dialogue in trying to find peace, India's influence at the ICC and its adhoc approach to membership, plus is sport for refugees authentic or an exercise in celebrity humanitarianism?

    58 min

  3. 04/11/2023

    High Performance Sport - Women, Coaches, and Safeguarding

    Women compete, women win but when it comes to High Performance coaching in Australia, less than ten percent are female. The AIS has a plan to turn that around between Paris 2024 and Brisbane 2032. Plus, FIFA's new online safeguarding course that might be valuable for all sports from grassroots to elite.

    54 min

  4. 28/10/2023

    Sitting in Judgment - Surfing and the Paris Olympics

    The Paris Olympic organisers have been told by Tahiti locals at the reef break where surfing will be contested that a planned judging tower is a threat to the ecosystem, unnecessary and non-negotiable, plus Afghanistan cricket's challenge, the place of women's football in Iran, and the rise of PNG rugby league.

    58 min

  5. 21/10/2023

    Sport, Diplomacy, and A.I.

    Members of Australia's ping-pong diplomacy team from the 1970s, who helped paved the way for diplomatic relations between Australia and China, are returning to Beijing this week marking 50 years since Australia's first embassy in China was opened, plus the role of diplomacy in Australian sport, and the emergence of AI in global sports integrity investigations

    59 min

  6. 13/10/2023

    Sport and the Pursuit of Peace in Times of War

    As the humanitarian crisis continues with the Israel-Gaza war, we go in search of those who use sport as a tool for peace and speak to others who measure their success.

    1 hr

  7. 07/10/2023

    Global Sport and Denmark - Small Country, Big Impact

    A small country of big thinkers, Denmark influences sport in many ways - from applying political pressure on non-democratic nations hosting big events, to anti-doping research, and even providing a home away from home for a former Matildas captain.

    56 min
  8. Ticket to the Cup: The Matildas' Journey Ends

    19/08/2023

    Ticket to the Cup: The Matildas' Journey Ends

    The Matildas' history making, record breaking World Cup ends with a 2-0 defeat to Sweden in the 3rd place play-off, while England and Spain duel to lift the trophy for the first time.

    22 min
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Tracey Holmes presents The Ticket, a weekly in-depth analysis of the major issues in sports business, politics and governance.

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  • Creator
    ABC
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2023
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All right reserved.
  • Show Website
    The Ticket Podcast

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