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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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Golden Plains wins last place in Geelong Community Cup finals
Golden Plains wins last place in Geelong Community Cup finals Roy Hay A one-all draw against Corio secured the last place in this year’s Community Cup finals at Geelong Rangers’ Myers Reserve on Sunday. Corio was already through and the result meant that Lara United...
Puskas statue unveiled in Melbourne
Puskas statue unveiled in Melbourne Roy Hay A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was unveiled in Melbourne today as close as could be to Olympic Park where the last game of his Australian coaching...
Rangers and Bell Park into the finals in Geelong Community Cup
Rangers and Bell Park into the finals in Geelong Community Cup Roy Hay Geelong Rangers topped Group A of the Geelong Community Cup after a seven-one thrashing of Surfcoast, while Bell Park booked its place in the finals after coming from behind to beat Deakin Ducks by...
Big wins for hosts and holders in Geelong Cup
Big wins for hosts and holders in Geelong Cup Roy Hay There were big wins for host club, Geelong Rangers, and cup holder Bell Park in the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday night. After Golden Plains upsetting Geelong on Friday, the expected order of things was...
Corio book place in finals as Golden Plains upsets Geelong
Corio book place in finals as Golden Plains upsets Geelong Roy Hay Corio is through to the finals of this season’s Geelong Community Cup after a comfortable three-nil win over a tiring Lara United, while Golden Plains upset a very young Geelong side by a single goal...
Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889: A Man between Two Worlds
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 apparently conform to a particularly narrow view of citizenship in Australia, the story of one man...
Corio and Lara United post wins in Geelong Community Cup
Corio overcame Geelong by two goals to one in a high quality first match for both clubs in the Geelong Community Cup at Myers Reserve on Sunday night. In the early game, Lara scored the only goal against newcomer Golden Plains. Despite going down to ten men in the...
Bell Park’s Community Shield campaign in tatters
Bell Park’s defence of its Geelong Community Shield is in tatters after an opening night four-nil defeat by host club Geelong Rangers at Myers Reserve on Friday night. In the early game Deakin Ducks and Surfcoast played a one-all draw. Both games were in Group A of...
Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967–1972
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 war. There is also a small literature about sport and war and hectares of newsprint...