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Presented by Club Respect, Smart Plays is a new podcast that explores some of the biggest problems facing Australian sport, and what it will take to bring sport into the modern world of respect.

Hosted by Tarik Bayrakli (Manager, Club Respect), Smart Plays is a fortnightly podcast featuring special guests from all over the sporting world.

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At its best, community sport is a social glue, teaching values of fair play, inclusion and respect from the ground up. But community sport at its worst becomes a battleground in which a win-at-all-costs mentality can lead to verbal and physical abuse of players, coaches and match officials. 

Every week our media highlights unsavoury sporting incidents that triggers the question — is this who we really are and is this the example we want to set our kids? 

As the manager of Club Respect and an avid sports fan himself, Tarik sees the potential of sport in bringing us together to create a more inclusive and cohesive society if we have the bravery to confront and address some ugly truths.

In each fortnightly episode of Smart Plays, Tarik and special guests will be tackling difficult social issues in sport and exploring our capacity for positive social change.

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Smart Plays has been made possible thanks to the support of donors. Special thanks to the Wood Foundation and Spicers Australia. 

We respectfully acknowledge the wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their custodianship of the lands and waterways.