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A History of Football in Australia by Roy Hay
Category: Sport
In coming years football will continue to excite sports fans throughout Australia. The Socceroos will contest the world's leading nations on the international stage. The Asian Football Confederation Cup of Nations will be held in Australia in 2015. The Matildas will defend their Asian championship crown ...Show more
A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves by Roy Hay
Category: Sport
From nineteenth century impromptu football games to the professional matches of the Socceroos and Matildas on the international stage - Australia's fastest growing sport has a fascinating and turbulent history. International successes and the creation of the A-League in 2005 fuelled nation-wide enthusia ...Show more
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century - They Did Not Come from Nowhere by Roy Hay
Category: Sport
A history of the involvement of Indigenous Australians in the domestic code of football primarily in the second half of the nineteenth century. Excluded from the top level of the game in Victoria, they forced their way into it from the missions and stations around the periphery of the colony/state first ...Show more
Albert 'Pompey' Austin - A Man Between Two Worlds by Roy Hay
Category: Biography
Biography of Indigenous sports person
Games Goals Glory by Roy Hay
Category: Sport
In eleven short years Australia's A-League has become one of the most competitive and enertaining sports in this country. It is producing great games, great goals, great players and the most committed fans of any sport. In 2016 any one of five teams could have won the premiership with only two rounds to ...Show more
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