It is a conventional wisdom that politics and sport should never mix. Sam Newman said it when the AFL printed the word YES on its logo outside its headquarters during the marriage equality plebiscite. Tony Abbott said it when Macklemore sang ‘Same Love’ at the NFL Grand Final. Thousands of

‘It’s just… I think… it runs so badly, you know’, says a student sitting a few rows behind me in my politics lecture. We have all been asked to vote on whether we are satisfied or not with the way democracy works in Australia, and close to three-quarters of