It’s 1am in the heart of Geelong’s nightclub strip on a Sunday morning. Blood runs down a man’s face and onto his hooded jumper as he sits in a divvy van after a fight.

It’s 1am in the heart of Geelong’s nightclub strip on a Sunday morning. Blood runs down a man’s face and onto his hooded jumper as he sits in a divvy van after a fight.

One lifter makes sure that she wears the appropriate stability gear: leg compression sleeves, durable lengths of thick, stretchy gauze wrapped around each wrist, and faded neon gauze wrapped around ...