{"id":104008,"date":"2025-08-29T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:26:08","slug":"the-shakeup-the-afls-queer-awakening-psych-wards-katter-crash-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104008\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SHAKEUP: The AFL&#8217;s queer awakening, psych wards + Katter crash out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The culture of the AFL has been under intense scrutiny all season, and this week there were two big moments: Mitch Brown came out as bi, while Bailey Smith spoke about his time in a mental health facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So are these conversations the sign a new era is starting in the AFL?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also this week, Bob Katter was caught re-reading his own book in an airport, days before threatening to punch a reporter in the face. We get into what&#8217;s behind the latest Katter crash out. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Host Dave Marchese is joined by The Daily Aus features editor Emma Gillespie, and author and former AFL player Brandon Jack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Get the whole story from Hack:Follow us on <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/triplejhack\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>Subscribe to the hack podcastListen on the <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/app\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triple j app<\/a> or on your radio live every weeknight at 5:30pm<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The culture of the AFL has been under intense scrutiny all season, and this week there were two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,75040,64,63,55,639,32308,75045,75044,75041,75043,75036,75037,72210,85,75042,75038,4153,44318,75039],"class_list":["post-104008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-culture","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-bob-katter","tag-bob-katter-threatens-reporter","tag-coming-out-in-the-afl","tag-culture-in-mens-sport","tag-gay-in-the-afl","tag-hack-daily-news","tag-hack-podcast","tag-mitch-brown","tag-sports","tag-stigma-in-mens-sport","tag-the-shakeup","tag-the_latest","tag-triple-j-hack","tag-triple-j-the-shakeup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}