RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER
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Controversy: Israel Folau this week reached a settlement with Rugby Australia
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Revisiting the 1969-70 Springboks tour last week in these pages was a surprisingly painful business. I thought all the angst over that troublesome period of the sport’s history had finally washed away but it all came flooding back.
It was a brutal, unequivocal reminder of rugby’s solidarity, over decades, with apartheid South Africa. Run by white Anglo Saxon male administrators of a certain...