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It’s time to stop funding ‘elite’ sports

Australia’s performance at the Commonwealth Games has exposed what a waste of taxpayers’ money it all is

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

Something just shook to the core Australians’ boundless confidence in their own manifest destiny: the Poms creamed Australia in the medal count in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.  For the first time since 1986, the Australian team is not cock of the Games walk and the English, fresh from their Ashes humiliation last summer, have regained bragging rights over the old enemy. 

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