Luke Robert
The Canberra Raiders 1989 rugby league grand final win emotionally scarred Luke Robert, a studiously solid -built kindergarten kid from the South West Slopes of NSW. His beloved Balmain Tigers were beaten in extra time - on the buzzer no less. After becoming a Raiders fan in 1990 - an obsession with sports began.
Luke has a soft spot for sports’ ability to continually impact societal change and marvels at the absurdity of American sports.
A Sports Media graduate from the University of Canberra, Luke contributes to The Canberra Times entertainment supplement ‘FLY’, where he covers bands who detour off the Hume. He has covered the ACT Brumbies for Sportal and currently maintains a blog dedicated to Sports|Culture http://www.litresofink.blogspot.com.
Luke plays in the Canberra punk-rock band Hoodlum Shouts and is a recent self-confessed twitter-addict.
Articles by Luke Robert
A simple rule that could transform sport in Australia
Would Australia’s sporting mainstream benefit from the introduction of a Rooney Rule? In 2003, America’s NFL introduced the Rooney Rule…... Read more
I bet you won’t believe what’s going on in the bowls
News broke yesterday afternoon that the New Zealand bowls’ four (yep, bowls) tanked a game in the Asia-Pacific championships in…... Read more
Canberra’s standing up to the AFL cash grab
Today I am a pleased lil’ constituent. ACT Minister for Sport Andrew Barr is standing firm as negotiations with the…... Read more
Sending out an SOS for Australian basketball
It was Mailer who wrote of Muhammad Ali’s pursuit of n’golo. Applied to the Rumble in the Jungle participant, the…... Read more
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