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Ian Braid

Australian Politician

Jul 14, 2026

26:01
Yeah
26:01
... five weeks away from his retirement.
26:04
We, um, the Matt Rittano Rugby Foundation was therefore set up to use rugby as the catalyst, but to go into areas, particularly in Croydon, where there's marginalized communities, and we're using rugby as the way in, but it's not how to give and take a pass or how to make a tackle.
26:29
It's, "This is a rugby ball.
26:31
Let's have some fun with this." And to use the work of the coaches as adult role models.
27:04
Yeah.
27:05
And we've, we've just had, um, recently we've had our awards s- um, our awards ceremony, which recognized the best boys and girls in all of the schools we've worked in, which is 18 schools, and out of those people we've picked one girl as it happened, and she was the winner of the inaugural Floyd Steadman Award.
27:27
'Cause Floyd Steadman was, is a man from a broken family.

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