The Beautiful Game of Empathy: Craig Foster’s Quest for Fair Play and Justice for Refugees
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Sport promotes its social credentials as inclusion, respect and equality and yet, curiously, often seeks to restrict these concepts to its own industry, between the stadium walls. Craig Foster AM believes that privilege carries responsibility and that, as an industry in Australia and around the world, sport has a visibility, economic gains and a social licence that obligates it to go further.
Why does sport seek to support refugees within its own confines, and yet allow them to be tortured outside? What is the difference between sport acting as a political agent or a neutral broker of social justice and human rights? Where is the line at which sport should cease to be an agent for the betterment of people everywhere? Through his stand for refugee rights in Australia, Craig will explore the future of sport advocacy.
Craig’s presentation is brought to you by the Faculty of Business and Law and Deakin CREATE (Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education).
When: Monday 15 May, 1–2pm
Where: The Banks (LC1.003), Building LC, Burwood Campus, or online via a live stream.