Dr Mary Woessner

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise, Institute for Health & Sport, Victoria University

Young boy doing a skateboarding jump at a skate park

Politics & Society

Australia must protect future Olympians from abuse

With athletes at the ‘Youthful’ Olympics as young as 11 years old, more needs to be done to protect young people in sport from any kind of abuse

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