{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69e74e7c07ecece42a32f22c/69e74e8323929c3a2a573afb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"#10 - The Legal Loophole Football Leagues Use to Dodge Player Injuries.","description":"<p>Every week, professional athletes break their bodies for our entertainment. So it will come as a huge shock to sports fans how poorly the law protects our sporting heroes.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>How our sporting codes lobbied to carve athletes out of injury protection in the 1970s</li><li>How a Carlton player briefly cracked that system open in the 2000s before it slammed shut again, and</li><li>Why the concussion crisis gripping the AFL and NRL is forcing a reckoning today.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>If you're paid to play, and paid to get hurt, why aren't you protected when the damage is done?</p><p><br></p><p>Guest: Associate Professor Eric Windholz, Monash University Law School</p><p><br></p><p>Case: <em>Whitehead v Carlton Football Club Ltd</em> [2005] VSC 257</p><p><br></p><p>Further reading</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://lens.monash.edu/why-sports-stars-get-less-support-than-other-injured-workers-and-how-we-can-fix-it/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Why sports stars get less support than other injured workers – and how we can fix it </a>by Eric Windholz</li><li><a href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1037969X251337131\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Professional athletes and injury insurance: A better way forward</a> by Eric Windholz</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"MINIATURE"}