The Matildas and the Lionesses are two of the most successful women’s national football teams in the world. They have met 26 times in official matches, with the Lionesses winning 15, the Matildas winning 7, and 4 draws. Continue reading
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Penalties, passes, and a touch of politics: the Women’s World Cup is about to kick off
David Rowe, Western Sydney University
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off this Thursday night, the first football world cup hosted by Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand opens the tournament by taking on Norway in Auckland, while Australia’s Matildas will play Ireland in front of an anticipated 80,000 fans at a sold out Stadium Australia in Sydney.
Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state. But there is a darker side to this quest for global freedom
A ‘network state’ is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralised. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying size, but their hearts are in one place.
In June 2022 Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, published an ebook entitled The Network State: How To Start a New Country. It is the latest in a flurry of utopian visions by self-styled digital visionaries, crypto believers and web 3.0 evangelists who are lining up to declare the death of the traditional concept of countries and nationhood.