Ethically Speaking: Sporting Ethics

Sometimes it can feel that we hold our sporting stars to unreasonable standards. After all, if they can kick a ball or run and generally behave themselves in the sporting arena shouldn’t that be the only code of practice that matters? But sports stories in the news are as often about appropriate behaviour outside the sport as they are about medals and premierships.

Chaired by sporting journalist Angela Pippos, our panel of experts featuring Gerard Whateley, Lisa Forrest and Joel Bowden, unpick the knotty issues of ethics in contemporary sport: from salary caps to performance enhancing drugs, from the commercialisation of sport to the wonderful world of sexual harassment and discrimination. Clearly, it’s all much more than a game.

Presenters

Angela Pippos

Angela Pippos is a journalist, television presenter, radio personality, author and MC.

Lisa Forrest

Lisa Forrest is a TV and radio broadcaster, actress and writer.

Gerard Whateley

Gerard Whateley is a broadcaster with ABC Radio Sport fronting the AFL and horse-racing coverage. He is an award-winning journalist who has worked at the Herald Sun and Channel Ten.

Joel Bowden

Joel Bowden played for the Richmond Tigers and has been president of the AFL Players Association.