Erin Delahunty

Freelance journalist, producer & podcast host

Australia

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Podcast guest
06/07/2017
A Sporting Discussion, Ep59

I joined Andrew Donnison and AJ Mithen of the A Sporting Discussion podcast to discuss the first week of the Suncorp Super Netball finals series.

Herald Sun, Weekend
02/18/2017
A whole new ball game

The new Super Netball league has kicked off. This is the guide you won't get anywhere else.

The Guardian
02/06/2017
The Guardian's guide to playing netball - wing defence

It's netball's thankless task. A position which requires unceasing doggedness, the speed and conditioning of a sprinter, tactical nous and the disposition to allow others to take the glory when hard work translates into an intercept.

The Guardian
01/24/2017
The Guardian's guide to playing netball - centre

With access to more court real estate than any other player, a centre can have a huge influence on a netball game, but as Peter Parker knows, with great power, comes great responsibility.

The Guardian
01/25/2017
'It's a huge deal': Australia's rugby sevens team honoured

Theirs was the Olympic story that intoxicated the nation. A young team, drawn from disparate sports, playing a new version of an old game in an electrifying way ... chasing history. It was the rise of Australia's women's rugby sevens team in Rio.

The Guardian
10/12/2016
Diamonds stunned by Silver Ferns in Constellation Cup

Thanks to a blistering defensive performance from 33-year-old Silver Fern Anna Harrison - who hassled, harangued and intimidated Diamonds' goaling superstar Caitlin Bassett - and a mammoth effort in defence, New Zealand beat Australia 53-51 in game two of the Constellation Cup in Launceston, to tie the series one-all.

The Guardian
10/09/2016
Bassett leads Diamonds masterclass against Ferns

Australian superstar Caitlin Bassett put on a shooting masterclass in Sydney this afternoon to lead her netball Diamonds to victory over the Silver Ferns in the first Test of the Constellation Cup series. Bassett knocked down 47 goals from 47 attempts in three quarters as Australia ran out 68-56 winners.

Podcast guest
A Sporting Discussion, Ep29

I joined Andrew Donnison and AJ Mithen of the A Sporting Discussion podcast to discuss the landmark netball pay deal.

The Guardian
09/14/2016
Netball Australia pay deal throws down gauntlet

Game on. That's the message from Australia's netball bosses, who today threw down the gauntlet to other elite female sports - or should that be, wannabe elite female sports - by announcing an unprecedented pay deal for the new national league's 80 players.

The Guardian
09/13/2016
Information vacuum running risk of alienating netball fans

They say patience is a virtue. But fans of elite netball across Australia, including this one - so excited about the inaugural all-Australian league in 2017, featuring teams aligned to AFL and NRL clubs and to be screened in prime time on free-to-air - are all out of patience after months of uncertainty and an information vacuum.

SBS Zela
Taekwondo star Carmen Marton is one kick-arse chick!

She's torn a hamstring, shattered her wrist twice, broken her arm and generally been beaten from pillar to post in a life dedicated to taekwondo. But 67kg Carmen Marton, the daughter of Polish immigrants, this week begins her third Olympic campaign with a singular focus; gold. "Missing out in London was so tough.

SBS Zela
Thanks for the memories, ANZ Championship

"This is our last goodbye,I hate to feel the love between us die,But it's over ..." American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley certainly wasn't lamenting the end of a trans-Tasman netball competition when he penned his 1995 heartbreak standard, Last Goodbye.

SBS Zela
08/09/2016
Gainsford-Taylor names track & field medal hopes

While the Australian track and field team is missing its best medal chance at this Games, with hurdle superstar Sally Pearson out injured, retired sprint champion and track and field selector Melinda Gainsford-Taylor is confident others will step up.

Podcast guest
A Sporting Discussion, Ep22

I joined Andrew Donnison and AJ Mithen of the A Sporting Discussion podcast to chat all things netball.

SBS Zela
OPINION: Just say no to netball rule changes

It's fair to say I don't have a whole lot in common with Laura Geitz, the super-fit, world-beating 185cm netball superstar who has become one of the game's most recognisable faces ...

SBS Zela
07/14/2016
How Caitlyn Nevins is proving her critics wrong

If Nevins' Firebirds can get over the NSW Swifts in Monday night's Australian conference final - and go all the way to claim back-to-back ANZ premierships - the 170cm 29-year-old will become the first, and only, player to win three consecutive flags.

House of Wellness
06/01/2016
Sister act - Cate & Bronte Campbell

Little sisters have a habit of making nuisances of themselves — just ask Aussie swim superstar Cate Campbell. Click headline to open PDF

House of Wellness
06/01/2016
New goals in sight

Life hasn’t slowed down for world champion netballer Bianca Chatfield since retiring. Click headline to open PDF.

The Guardian
05/26/2016
Laura Geitz says new scoring zones would alter 'whole concept' of netball

Australian Diamonds captain Laura Geitz says the introduction of different scoring zones - which Netball Australia has not ruled after the announcement the new national netball league - would change the "whole concept of the game." Netball Australia last week announced details of the new Australia-only league, which will be supported by a five-year free-to-air television deal on the Nine Network.

SBS Zela
05/20/2016
We have some questions about the 'netball revolution'

By any measure, Netball Australia's long-awaited announcement about the future of the game - which includes the end of the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship, a new all-Australian league, with new sides aligned to AFL and NRL clubs to replace it and a paid broadcast deal with Channel 9 and Telstra for primetime free-to-air coverage - is pretty spectacular.

SBS Zela
05/09/2016
Netball alert, but not alarmed, at AFL threat

The AFL wants to poach the best female athletes in the country for its much-hyped women’s league, but the sport with potentially the most to lose, netball, isn’t intimidated.

House of Wellness
06/01/2016
High expectations

The Olympic buzz around Eleanor Patterson is huge, and for good reason, though this teen isn’t letting it distract her. Click headline to open PDF.

The Guardian
03/30/2016
ANZ Championship season preview: Firebirds start with targets on their backs

The 2016 edition of the ANZ Championship begins on Friday, with the reigning premiers, Queensland Firebirds, opening their title defence against the Mainland Tactix in Brisbane. This season the Firebirds will be the hunted, as they attempt to make history as the only side to win back-to-back trans-Tasman titles.

The Guardian
09/16/2015
ANZ Championship trade period produces plenty of big deals

The poaching of a Silver Fern by an Australian franchise, the confirmation of Laura Geitz's future, the signing of a 203cm basketball international, a sister act fairytale in Melbourne, a surprise return by a former Diamond and a new coach for Adelaide - the trans-Tasman netball championships trade period didn't disappoint.

BuzzFeed
How a mosque split a country town in two

Around 1000 angry people converged on the Victorian city of Bendigo last weekend to argue for two wildly disparate causes. This was a battle over much more than the proposed building of the town's first mosque, it was a fight going to the heart of Australia's slow-burning self-immolation over Muslim migration.

The Guardian
08/17/2015
Was that the last Australia-New Zealand final we'll see?

In a Netball World Cup where international rankings were reshuffled and the three most prolific goal scorers included a Malawian who plays like no one else before, a gigantic Jamaican who has honed her craft in the ANZ Championships and a 21-year-old university student from South Africa, questions about the longevity of the sport's Trans-Tasman dominance are inevitable.

The Guardian
08/16/2015
Australia beat New Zealand in final to win Netball World Cup

New Zealand learned the hard way to never poke the Australian bear as a rampaging Diamonds team, wounded by a loss to their arch rivals earlier in the tournament, beat the Silver Ferns 58-55 in a characteristically heart-stopping Netball World Cup final in Sydney.

The Guardian
08/15/2015
Diamonds set up dream Netball World Cup final clash

It's on. The Netball World Cup final fans have dreamed of since the spine-tingling double-extra time win by Australia over New Zealand in Singapore in 2011. The Trans-Tasman foes will fight for gold in Sydney on Sunday, after the Diamonds beat a determined and physical Jamaica 67-56 in front of 16,244 people.

The Guardian
10/25/2015
Silver Ferns shock depleted Diamonds at Hisense Arena

In a thrilling match at Hisense Arena, a resolute Silver Ferns outfit, led by shooter Bailey Mes, took advantage of a depleted Diamonds defensive unit - which was missing captain Laura Geitz, who was rested, and Renae Ingles, absent because of a calf strain - and showed they'd learned from the first two tests, played in New Zealand, which Australia won.

BuzzFeed
This country town shows how easy it is to accept refugees

"It's not frightening, not something to be scared of. It's part of our DNA now." Those are the words of Shepparton mayor Dennis Patterson, speaking of his town's long history of accepting and embracing refugees from war-torn nations across the globe.

Bendigo magazine, spring 2012, Pg51
08/29/2012
Scott bares all

He’s the “Jamie Oliver of the finance world”. A best-selling author. Primetime TV and radio star. Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. Household name. He’s Scott Pape.

Bendigo magazine, summer 2012, Pg60
11/29/2012
FIFOs dig a new way of life

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