Yvonne Sampson
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And she just started filming with these women.
And so, as you know, the poverty there is quite confronting.
And these women, all they had was a love of the game and passion.
a rugby league jersey that looked like they'd gotten from a donation shop.
And Joanne follows this beautiful team of women.
They leave their little tin shanties, they pick up their babies, they go to the training ground, they put their babies down on a hessian sack on the side of the field and they do some training.
And they're trying to learn the game of rugby league and all they want to do is play the game and represent their country.
And it's like it sets you up for this fairy tale.
You're like, oh, my God, these women who have so little but they love rugby league so much and what it means to them.
And it follows their journey.
And now they got pumped like 60 block, right?
And not only that but the men were highly โ
embarrassed about how badly they were representing PNG on the world stage and there was a lot of backlash and sexism and it was a really tough time for the women, but they had nothing.
But the fairy tale turns out, what are we, almost 10 years later, that the children of those women can now grow up and be a chief if they want to and potentially play in the NRL and bring pride to their country and bring pride to their communities.
And it is truly life-changing.
And I think if people want to โ I don't know why people are so upset about the tax thing.
It's such a bigger conversation than tax breaks.
I know a woman who works in TV in Queensland who wrote her boob job off for tax.
So I don't know why everyone is so offended about tax-free dollars in P&G.
Why are we so โ why do we care about the bookkeeping?