The climate crisis 'poses an existential threat to the future of sport'

By Roxanne Fitzgerald
Updated March 2 2021 - 10:42am, first published February 26 2021 - 1:45pm
The Katherine women's football team braced for a hot game in 2019 against the Southern Districts as temperatures were set to reach 43 degrees. Picture: Chris McLennan.
The Katherine women's football team braced for a hot game in 2019 against the Southern Districts as temperatures were set to reach 43 degrees. Picture: Chris McLennan.

At the end of a sweltering November in 2019, the Katherine women's football team was bracing for a brutal test of physical and mental strength as they headed onto a field already burning beneath the morning sun.

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