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When the Race Ends in Tragedy: Animal Welfare and the Integrity of Racing
The death of Ohope Wins at the Caulfield Cup raises an uncomfortable question for Australian racing: who is accountable for the welfare of the animals that make the sport possible?
Saturday's 150th Caulfield Cup should have been a celebration of one of Australia's great sporting traditions.
Instead, the race was overshadowed by a tragic incident involving two horses, Half Yours and Ohope Wins, which fell in the closing stages of the race.
Who Should Judge the Doper? the 2027 WADA Code updates
On 1 January 2027, the revised World Anti-Doping Code and associated International Standards will come into effect.
The changes address a range of issues, including athlete rights, proportionality, the treatment of minors, privacy, results management and the independence of anti-doping decision-making.
In Australia, the Commonwealth Government introduced the Sport Legislation Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Implementation) Bill 2026 on 17 September 2026. The Bill passed both Houses of Parliament on 15 October 2026, ahead of the new Code's commencement.
You Can't Fix a Fixed Match with a Policy. federal match-fixing offences bill passes
After years of reviews, policy commitments and legislative discussion, Australia is finally taking a significant step towards a national criminal law response to match-fixing and sporting corruption.
On 20 August 2026, the Commonwealth Government introduced the Criminal Code Amendment (National Sport Integrity Offences) Bill 2026. The Bill proposes seven (7) new criminal offences targeting the corruption of sporting competitions, the misuse of inside information, and related conduct.
Fast & Fair - Fairness in motorsport’s f1 championship
Sporting fairness is not simply about whether a tribunal can later identify an alternative, or arguably preferable, technical methodology. It is also about certainty, consistency, and equality of treatment. Sporting fairness does not prevent the correction of an error in the application of the common benchmark to an individual competitor, but it should prevent the retrospective rewriting of that common benchmark for one competitor.
New rules, same game? what are the Updates to the NIF?
Australian sport does not need more integrity policies for their own sake. It needs integrity systems that work.
The 2026 NIF reforms provide a useful opportunity to make that happen.
Whether sporting organisations take full advantage of that opportunity is another question.
You Better get a lawyer, sport.
This article reviews the Determination of National Sports Tribunal Member Bruce Collins KC as Arbitrator in the case of Olga Belooussov v Gymnastics Australia NST-E24-331101.
As integrity systems mature, the question is no longer whether organisations have policies, but whether those policies — and the decisions made under them — can withstand legal challenge. This requires legal expertise not just at the point of dispute, but at the design, investigation, and decision-making stages.