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2013: Elizabeth Marrison is pictured left being presented with the captain’s prize by this year’s captain Margaret Barr.

IT ALL began on a cold August evening in Newcastle, the unlikely birthplace of a sporting and broadcasting revolution. When the A-League kicked off in 2005, and Carl Veart headed home the opening goal of a brand new national league, it was Fox Sports’ cameras which broadcast what has become a historic moment. It wasn’t just a new league born that night, but the start of a partnership between the A-League – and later the W-League – with Fox Sports which has created a back catalogue of the...

"We resigned because one of our jobs as governors is to mitigate risk to the reputation of the company and what I saw, was a huge upswelling of discontent and confusion about the artistic direction of the company. "So it was alarming [and] there was a flashpoint that we reached as governors, where we realised that there was no opportunity for us to be able to work as governors any longer." He said that discontent and confusion came from people worried over whether New Zealand Opera was provi...

New Zealand Operas 2020 production of Eight Songs for a Mad King. Photo: Jeff McEwan A letter from the board chairperson on Tuesday confirmed directors Murray Shaw, Rachael Walkinton and Witi Ihimaera had resigned. The news comes about two weeks after the company announced its newest production would be based on the saga of the so-called unruly tourists - a story that gripped the media in the summer of 2019 - in an effort to draw in new audiences and tell local stories. Renowned New Zealand te...

News comes two weeks after production focusing on the saga of the 'unruly tourists' was announced.

Renowned New Zealand tenor Simon ONeill said, while he was not opposed to that remit, the topic was wrong. "This is using precious taxpayer money, which could be used better elsewhere in our art form. The new director has promised reimagination of the opera and he is not delivering that at all," ONeill said. He called poking fun at the group "middle-class snobbery" and said while he was not opposed to new and improved ways to grow the audience, the direction of the Opera company had gone downhi...

Is the A-Leagues broadcast deal now a hostage situation? A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size There were exactly 229 days between tweets for Fox Sports’ executive director Steve Crawley, but what he posted on December 23 should be of interest to every A-League fan. “Can’t wait to hear Brenton Speed – the voice of football call A-League this coming season on Fox Sports,” Crawley wrote. “He’s the ...