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Box scores on back pages and hagiographic biographies are what come to mind when we think of sports writing. Often maligned as low brow, sports writing is rarely considered as creative and nuanced, or seen in its multiple forms such as short fiction, poetry, plays, novels, long form essays, and creative non-fiction (see Symons et al., 2022). While some sports have been afforded something of a literary tradition, boxing for example with contributions from heavyweights Norman Mailer (The Fight, 1975) and Joyce Carol Oates (On Boxing, 1987), others, football (soccer) for example, the world’s most popular sport (Kuper & Szymanski, 2018), have, until recently, been regarded as having none (see McGowan, 2019).

These six reports represent the results of the first year of study that has developed a framework for benchmarking regional reputation. The project has surveyed business owners within the region and externally to establish a benchmark of Moreton Bay's reputation. This will be followed by a further two years of surveying to establish any change in reputation. The survey data has been supplemented by thematic and discourse analysis of media narratives of three regions at different points on the 'entrepreneurial' identity development.

Until recently, women’s football in Oceania has received very little academic scrutiny. New research examines social and historical aspects of women’s football in the region. As part of the project, a larger research team collaborated with football related organisations on the development of potential community resources. Informed by theoretical frameworks drawn from studies on formal and informal communities of practice, this paper examines the practices and processes of a creative writing research community in the design and development of resources aimed at a differing community of practice, in this case a group of football industry practitioners. This paper offers a brief overview of women’s football in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands, describes the project outcomes and outputs, and presents insight on the experiences of the project team in their production. The paper contributes to theoretical fields related to communities of practice and to those social histories of women’s football in general and specifically in Oceania.

Netflix show, Grace and Frankie, is significant in its representation of ageing. While it may appear ground-breaking to see people in their seventies and eighties navigating (re)invention of self and sexuality within mainstream media, upon closer inspection-in particular, Season Four-the inherent contradictions common to postfeminist texts are exposed. Initial offerings from 1 Grace and Frankie extend to positive representations of ageing sexuality, female agency, and self-efficacy; however, these themes are rather negated as the seasons progress. Such incongruities feature notions of what might be considered as effective ageing: a dualism in which ageing femininity is both celebrated and fought; discourses of empowerment via rigorous, yet relatively ineffective, corporeal self-maintenance/somatic discipline; a sexualised 'feminism' which also features the women as variously alone, but dependent upon their ex-husbands, each other, or their children; and a postfeminist 'makeover' paradigm in which the pendulum swings between preservation and restoration, individualism and conformity. Albeit within neoliberal and postfeminist discourses, Grace and Frankie, while flawed, remains an important text in which visibly ageing bodies, ageing sexuality, and non-normative identification are elevated and explored.