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Archive pages on this domain filed under “History”, newest first. These are older materials, kept online for readers and researchers.
in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle…
We all know the rules to the senior game but do you remember the rules of Primary School playground fitba? (In other…
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Waltzing Matilda is still Australia’s unofficial national anthem in many people’s minds. The late Dennis O’Keeffe thought that at heart it was a love…
[1] Nelson Mandela, the recently deceased former president of the Republic of South Africa, was always conscious of the…
Leo Baumgartner (centre) heading. His arrival in Australia in 1958 to play for Prague was the catalyst for the…
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From Emus to Socceroos: The real origins of national team’s name at last and David Hearder (This story first appeared in Goal Weekly, 24 February…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly on 23 December 2011, p. 19.) Charles Perkins was a pioneering figure in the recognition of the Aboriginal…
(This appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, on 5 December 2011, p. 20 as 'Book it now, Winnie. Diversions, plagiarism and…
Annie Wakeford (extreme left) and Norma May Mawson (second left) welcome the Victorian Minister for Housing, Wendy…
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Deakin University Originally published as: , ‘A new look at soccer violence’, in Denis Hemphill, All part of the game: Violence and Australian Sport…
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This year in Scotland the ‘Old Firm’, Celtic and Rangers, will meet seven times in the 2010–11 season. Somewhere along the line the notion has arisen…
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Published as 'Balancing act', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 20 October 2008, p. 15. While most attention has focused on the provision of computers to…
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Published as ' Footy facts', Geelong Advertiser, Thurday 31 July 2008, p. 21. The Newspapers in Education column of the Geelong Advertiser is one of…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 26 August 2006, p. 35. We have a curious situation in Australia in 2006. Australian history is a tiny part of the school…
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Published as 'New Evidence: When did Aborigines first play Aussie rules?', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 October 2009, p. 21. The footy season is…