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Frances and Roy Hay, Marnie Haig-Muir and Peter Mewett set up Sports and Editorial Services Australia in 2000 to provide high-quality research, editing and publishing facilities for individuals and organisations in Australia and throughout the world.
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In recent years SESA has acted as a consultant for Victoria Police, Heritage Victoria, Football Federation Victoria, the City of Melbourne, the City of Greater Dandenong, the Office of Housing and the Trustees of the Estate of Alexander Miller, the National Sports Museum, and a number of individuals. Current projects include a social history of Australian football (soccer).
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Both games drawn in Geelong Community Cup
Both games drawn in Wednesday’s Geelong Community Cup Roy Hay (click on photos below to enlarge them) Barwon got its first point in this year’s Geelong Community Cup when it held Bell Park to a one-all draw in the early game at Stead Park, while the high-quality match...
Geelong on top of Community Cup after two rounds
Geelong tops Geelong Community Cup after two rounds Roy Hay (Click on the pics below to enlarge them) The second round of matches in the Geelong Community Cup were played on Friday 2 February resulting in a two-one win for host club Geelong against Corio, while Bell...
Geelong Community Cup 2018 kicks off
Geelong Community Cup 2018 Roy Hay (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong’s Community Cup, the long running pre-season tournament that began as the Geelong Advertiser Cup in 1981, kicked off at Stead Park on Wednesday night in a new format. Geelong hosted...
Vietnam heroes celebrate their 50th anniversary
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 over lunch at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the invitation of the SCG Trust. (Click on...
50th Anniversary of victory in Vietnam
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 a good idea if the national football team took part in a tournament in Vietnam to boost morale in some of...
Indigenous players didn’t invent Australian rules but they did make it their own
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 May 2017 and is republished here with permission) It would be wonderful if...
Corio win Geelong Community Cup at last
Corio win Geelong Community Cup at last Roy Hay (Click on the photographs below to enlarge them) Corio have appeared in the last five finals of the Geelong Community Cup and its predecessors, and lost the lot, but on Sunday night at Myers Reserve it was sixth time...
Corio meets Golden Plains in Geelong Community Cup Final
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 in the final at Myers Reserve at 6 pm. Corio has been in the last five finals and...
Golden Plains shock Rangers to gain place in Geelong Cup final
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 the Geelong pre-season Cup, newcomers Golden Plains downed host and joint tournament favourite...