25 Mar 2019

Sexism, trolling and the photo of Tayla Harris

From Afternoons, 1:16 pm on 25 March 2019
Tayla Harris

Tayla Harris Photo: Michael Wilson/Australian Football League

This stunning image is of Tayla Harris, an Australian Rules Football unleashed a perfect punt. But it became a talking point for all the wrong reasons.

When Australia's channel 7 published the photo it was besieged by trolls making nasty comments - so removed it. That caused an even bigger backlash from people pointing out that the trolls were the problem not the photo, so the broadcaster re-posted it on social media.

Kate O'Halloran is a former cricketer for Victoria and now works as a sports journalist and joins us now to explain more about sexism in sport and what can be done.

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