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David Rhys-Jones

ARTICLES, Interviews
Role models? Turn it up! There’s two types of people. There’s Aussie heroes, and there’s wankers mate. You don’t have to let champion status get in the way of being…

 Steve Waugh

ARTICLES, Interviews
The figures say he was the greatest Test captain of all. Yes, he presided over a team so great at its best, on so many levels, it’s difficult to imagine…

Strauchnie

ARTICLES, Interviews
The words “elite” and “Strauchanie” sit together, like “Mike Tyson” and “role-model.” Bryan Strauchan, self-proclaimed “superstar”, has overcome a debilitating “peanut analogy” to become – what he is today: an…

Stephen Bradbury

ARTICLES, Interviews
With his radically arched eyebrows and his hair standing stiffly on end, he has a look of permanent surprise, as though he’s spent a lifetime preparing his face for what…

Desert uprising

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
Three years ago, Melbourne Football Club saw the future. With some help. Bruce Hearn Mackinnon was the medium in question, and the tall, dark, lithe and crazily gifted figure in…

Weaving Silk

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
In 1868, the first-ever touring cricket side from Australia, the aboriginal team, would hold “games” for the crowd’s entertainment after a day’s play. The entertainment was complimentary, but sometimes they’d…

A black and white argument

ARTICLES, Indigenous sport
 Aboriginal sportsmen and women have deeply enriched Australian sport, and, internationally, have done the nation they represent proud. After all these years, it seems compulsory to preface any discussion of…

Oenpelli Soul

ARTICLES, Indigenous
In Kakadu and Arnhem Land something happens to your sense of time and place. It’s a deceptive place; a place of great contrast, contradiction and uneasy compromise, where European and…

Artie Beetson

ARTICLES, Tributes & Obits
News of the sudden and sad passing of Arthur Beetson on December 1 has prompted new appraisals of this ground-breaking footballer who was one of rugby league’s true characters. Arthur…

Cliff Young

ARTICLES, Tributes & Obits
Cliffy’s gone off and done the final shuffle, twenty years after a single achievement made him an everlasting icon. Some devalue Cliff Young’s achievement that memorable day in 1983 when…

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