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    Remembering the Maryborough marvel, Frank Ivory: The extraordinary life and times of the first Indigenous star of two football codes

    Maryborough Railway Station, 30 August 1893 He stood on the platform, a suitcase in his hand and a dream in his head. Of course he’d been here before. ...

    On June 23, 2020 / By Paul Nicholls
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    REVEALED: The forgotten first match between a VFL team and an Aboriginal football team

    On Tuesday, September 16, 1913, something occurred that should be commemorated within the annals of Australian Rules football, but has instead been completely forgotten. The first ever match ...

    On May 25, 2017 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules 6

    Cummeragunja: The Aboriginal football team that opened the eyes of White Australia

    In the 1930s, Sir Doug Nicholls was one of only two Indigenous player plying his trade in top flight football in Melbourne. But he did not come out ...

    On May 26, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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    Blacks and “Blacked-Up Whites” v Whites: The story of the strangest game of footy ever played

    On Monday, June 11, 1900, Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper reported that a charity match was “played  between 20 representatives of the Healesville Aboriginal Station and a team selected ...

    On September 4, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules

    Adam Goodes: (Black) Pride and (White) Prejudice

    And so Adam Goodes will make his return to the Swans in their game against Geelong this weekend. Football might return to being about the result. Goodes might ...

    On August 6, 2015 / By Andy Fuller

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