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    Voices from the boundary line: The Australian Football League's Indigenous Team of the Century

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    Authors
    Gorman, Sean
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gorman, Sean. 2012. Voices from the boundary line: The Australian Football League's Indigenous Team of the Century. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. 15 (7): pp. 1014-1025.
    Source Title
    Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics
    DOI
    10.1080/17430437.2012.723371
    ISSN
    1743-0437
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48069
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    By engaging with all the members of the Australian Football League's (AFL) Indigenous Team of the Century named in August 2005, I provide an overview of Indigenous participation in Australian football, sport and Australian society in general. These players have been interviewed for an oral history project undertaken by the author. I discuss some of the specific themes and issues that Indigenous footballers have had to face and overcome, and the progress that the AFL has made in bringing Indigenous Australians into a mainstream consciousness. Further, I illustrate and demonstrate that, through Australian football, the marginalized history of Indigenous people can be told, understood and appreciated.

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