Earlier this week, Wikinews interviewed Sarah Walsh, a former Australian women's national soccer team (Matilidas) player, about women's football in the country.
The Australian women's team is currently ranked ninth by FIFA, down one spot from the previous quarter when they were tied at eighth with the North Korea women's national football team.  Meanwhile, Australia's men (Socceroos) are currently ranked 59th in the world, between the Burkina Faso and Slovakia national football team.  Walsh retired from the national team in September of last year, after scoring 32 goals in 71 appearances. She was on Matildas side that qualified for the World Cup for the first time while playing in the Asian Football Confederation instead of the Oceania Football Confederation.  She also played in two World Cup quarter-finals for the team. Playing in Australia's top level domestic league, the W-League, she won the league championship in 2009.  She retired from the league this year.  Walsh played professionally in the United States for Sky Blue FC and Saint Louis Athletica.
((WN)) :  The Socceroos are ranked 59th by FIFA.  The Matildas are ranked 8th by FIFA in the latest rankings. Should media coverage correlate to team performance and internationally rankings? Is there an element of tall poppy syndrome in the coverage of the Socceros?  What other factors can be used to explain the relative differences in media attention other than performance?
((WN)) : What's the difference in style of play between the men and women's national teams?
((WN)) : Why are the Matildas more successful in international competitions and ranking wise than the Socceroos?
((WN)) :   Why do you think men don't watch the Matildas in the same numbers as they watch the Socceroos?
((WN)) : Does the media feed into traditional Australian gender stereotypes by not covering elite women's sports?
((WN)) :  What is your role in sports? Journalist? Academic? Sport administrator? Player?  Please provide one to two sentence biography to contextualize your answers.

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Wikinews interviews former Matilda's player Sarah Walsh about Australian women's soccer