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About Women in Football Australia Inc.
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We are a not-for-profit national member-based Association incorporated in Tasmania on 12 April 2019 and are registered as a charity by the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission.

 

Incorporation number: IA12372

 

ABN:   45 805 287 901. 

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Want to know more?

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Check out our FAQ here.

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Check out our Constitution here.

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Check out our Annual Reports here.

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Check out our Discussion Boards & Policy Papers here.

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Check out our Committee Members here.

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Check out our Ambassadors here.

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Annual reports
Discussion Boards 
& Policy Papers

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Improving Opportunities for Professional Women's Football  / October 2019    CLICK TO READ

Response to FFA's XI Principles / June 2020  CLICK TO READ

Football for Women and Girls':10-year plan from FFA Women's Council / June 2020  CLICK TO READ

Boards & Policy
Meet the Committee
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LOUISE TAFFA

Louise Taffa, from Canberra, has worked in football for the past five years and in various media roles for the past nine years. She is a regular contributor on BBC Sport and was previously the host of several shows at FNR - Football Nation Radio. 

 

Louise currently works in a government communications and media role, while maintaining a passionate interest in the game, especially the development of young players.

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ROB JURIC

Rob is an avid football fan and accredited coach, having played in semi-professional leagues in Australia and England. Rob has been involved in the sport for over 40 years as a player, coach, team manager, volunteer and parent. In recent years he has been deeply involved in youth and school football on the northern beaches of Sydney through his association with Manly Utd FC and Sydney FC Sporting Schools Program. Rob is also a volunteer for Football Utd/Creating Chances which aims to empower youth through football. 

 

Professionally, Rob holds a commerce degree, graduate diploma in applied finance and investment (FINSIA) and CPA qualifications. Rob has an extensive business and project management background with particular expertise in corporate lending, risk management and financial analysis. As a corporate finance professional Rob had over 20 years experience with top tier investment banks in Australia and the UK. In his most recent role, Rob was an executive director at UBS AG having worked on numerous high profile corporate deals. 

 

Rob’s latest project is the running of a boutique sports management business that focusses solely on female footballers.

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BONITA MERSIADES

Bonita has been a football volunteer in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney and Townsville for more than 30 years. She has worked professionally in football with a national soccer league club, a state federation, as team manager of the Socceroos, and with FFA as Head of corporate and public affairs. She is also the author of two football books: Frank Farina's My World is Round  and Whatever It Takes - the Inside Story of the FIFA Way. She is a writer, editor and publisher, founder of Fair Play Publishing and the Football Writers' Festival and is an advocate for reform in football internationally as co-founder of the former campaign group New FIFA Now.

 

Prior to working in football, Bonita also worked as a senior executive with the federal government in the areas of health, education and budgetary policy, and as a Ministerial advisor. She has represented Australia at the World Health Organisation on HIV/AIDS and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation fora including leading APEC delegations.​

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JORGE KNIJNIK

Dr Jorge Knijnik is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Jorge’s overarching research interests focus on topics of Education (including Health and Physical Education), social justice, sport for development, gender, multiculturalism, football fandom, curriculum and social inclusion.

 

His community and pedagogical work has been acknowledged by two major prizes: the 2009 Building Gender Equality awarded by the Brazilian Research Council, UNESCO and UN-WOMEN, and a 2014 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, presented by the Australian Department of Education.​ Originally from Brazil, Jorge is a lifelong football fan, and has authored or co-authored eight books, both academic and non-academic in genre.

 

His most recent publication (2018) is entitled The World Cup Chronicles: 31 Days that Rocked Brazil.

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VICKI MORTON

Victoria Morton is President of South Hobart Football Club, a position she has held for more than nine years and has been involved in football in Tasmania for 17 years. She is deputy Chairman of the Association of Australian Football Clubs (AAFC) and President of the Central Region Football Association in Tasmania, which manages football for 4,500 players between the ages of 5-12 in greater Hobart.

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She is also a Director of Morton's Soccer School which runs classes for girls and boys between the ages of 4-18 years. Victoria also manages The Kit Room, which is a football specific store in Hobart. ​In 2018, Victoria re-introduced the Hobart Cup to the local football landscape, with more than 120 teams participating to be Southern Tasmania's most popular junior tournament.

 

A former restaurant owner and pastry chef, Victoria was also named Football Administrator of the Year in 2018.

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ROB
ROSE
VICKI
JORGE
Comittee
BONITA
Our Ambassadors
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GEORGE DONIKIAN

George is an Australian media icon, but also a passionate football fan, player and administrator.

Beginning in radio, he soon progressed to anchor the first critically acclaimed SBS World News, for eight and a half years, before moving to the Nine Network and later the Ten Network in Adelaide and Melbourne.  

 

He is the host of The Informer, Australia's online news and current affairs broadcaster. 

​George was an inaugural committee member of Women in Football and withdrew as a committee member in 2020 due to work commitments.​ He is also an Ambassador for Bully Zero and Melbourne City FC and is an Advisory Board member of the Australian Intercultural Society. 

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SIMON HILL

Simon is known as the 'voice of football' in Australia having been chief commentator for Fox Sports for 14 years until his departure in July 2020.​ He began his career as a journalist in the UK, working for FM Radio in Cardiff before joining the BBC and later ITV. He freelanced for a number of media organisations until emigrating to Australia in 2003 where he worked SBS-TV on cricket and football for three years, before joining Fox Sports. 

 

He has covered the A-League, W-League, Socceroos and Matildas matches, the World Cup, Asian Cup, European matches and the Premier League.​ He is a lifelong fan of Manchester City.

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