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On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international trophy celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victory

50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam By Roy Hay In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by Harold Holt, agreed it would be

Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State Library of Victoria. (This article was first published in The Conversation on 25

Corio win Geelong Community Cup at last Roy Hay (Click on the photographs below to enlarge them) [caption id="attachment_2755" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Hamish Flavell of Golden Plains at full stretch as he

Corio meets Golden Plains in Geelong Community Cup Final Roy Hay Corio will be an unbackable favourite to win the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday when it takes on newcomer

Golden Plains shock Rangers to gain place in Geelong Cup final Roy Hay (Click on the images below to enlarge them) In probably the biggest upset in the long history of

Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889: A Man between Two Worlds Roy Hay In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not

Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967–1972, A Missing Part of the National Narrative Roy Hay Much has been written about sport in Australia. Much more has been written about

History or heritage: A Museum for Football in Australia This article appeared in Leopold Method in May 2015 just after the launch of the Whole of Football twenty year