Lucy Small, a longboarder and gender equality advocate, has been suspended from the 2025 Noosa Festival of Surfing after speaking out about unequal prize money at a club event. The Noosa Malibu Club, one of the competition organizers, claims Small brought the club into disrepute with 'erroneous statements' made in a media article.
On Christmas Eve, longboarder and gender equality advocate Lucy Small received an email from John Finlay, chairman of the Noosa Festival of Surfing – a competition Small had been competing in, on and off, for 13 years.
Glen Gower is president of the Noosa Malibu Club, one of the organisers of the 2025 competition, and was copied into the email Small received on Christmas Eve.on Monday that read: “Ms Small is currently banned from all Noosa Malibu Club Events” due to her bringing the club into “national disrepute” for comments made “via media channels” that the club say were false.
Surfing Australia CEO Chris Mater was also quoted saying he’d issued the club with a first and final warning saying it had breached the organisation’s rules on equal prize money. He retracted the warning a week later and issued an apology as the event had not broken Surfing Australia’s regulations at the time.
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