As part of the celebrations for the 2024 Female Football Week, Capital Football are hosting a ‘Women in Sports’ panel at the 2024 Awards Brunch.
Get to know a little about the panel members starting with the MC, Liz Deep-Jones
LIZ DEEP-JONES is the Inaugural and current Freilich Media and Arts Activism Fellow at the Australian National University. She’s also a journalist, producer, television presenter, published author, anti-racism campaigner, public speaker, storyteller, content creator, art curator, film maker and human rights advocate.
Liz has spent over 25 years in the media, most of it reporting, presenting and producing for SBS TV sport, news and current affairs, Mandarin News and Current affairs and the Indigenous network, NITV.
She gained public recognition as one of the first female television journalists to break the mold in sports reporting and hosted the highly coveted SBSTV, LIVE Toyota World Sports national SBS TV program and On the Ball TV football show working alongside Socceroo legends, Johnny Warren and Craig Foster, broadcaster Les Murray and commentators Simon Hill, Paul Williams and David Basheer.
Her career highlights include, creating and producing the We Bleed The Same Anti-racism exhibition and documentary to combat racism with photographer Tim Bauer, publishing her young adult Lucy Zeezou series, reporting on the 1998 FIFA World Cup in Paris, hosting the LIVE broadcast of the 1998 ATP Adelaide Men’s Tennis Open, Covering the Matildas games since the 1990’s and their historic win at the 2010 women’s Asian Cup in China – claiming Australia’s first Asian football title and reporting on the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She also interviewed some of the most notable people on the planet including the likes of – the Dalai Lama, football idols- Pele, Maradona, Matildas – Kyah Simon & Clare Hunt, Olympians – Cathy Freeman, Nova Peris, Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Pat Rafter. She was also a sideline reporter for the Inaugural 2019 ABC TV coverage of the W-League and reported on the Sydney 2000 Olympics where she met her idol, the late Nelson Mandela.
Liz is passionate about utilising her journalistic and art skills to combat racism and champion human rights, refugees and women and children’s rights for and a more equitable and inclusive society. In 2021, she created and produced the ‘We Bleed The Same’ anti-racism exhibition, working with photographer, Tim Bauer, Designer Brenda Dwyer and production manager, Izabella Deep-Jones.
The show, supported by the ANU’s Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry, consists of portraits, her documentary which shares the extraordinary stories of over 30 people from varied cultures and religion featured in the show – including a Holocaust survivor, Stolen Generation survivor, Sydney Swans legend, Indigenous rights advocate, and rock star – refugee advocate, and photographic installations which include images of the public from across the nation – celebrating diversity and raises questions about identity and belonging through her installation called ‘Face of Humanity’.
The mother of two, also loves the beach, old fashion in person conversations over long lunches, theatre, tennis, walking her dog, and reading. She’s living her dream, conducting author talks, working for a better world by utilising her media skills, the arts and storytelling platforms to inspire and empower young people to create positive change. Liz lives in Sydney with her family and commutes to Canberra for her Arts activism Fellowship. Liz is also writing her highly anticipated third novel and touring her WeBleedTheSame show, nationally.
