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The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible

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posted on 2023-05-20, 13:41 authored by Timothy ButcherTimothy Butcher, Judd, B
In his highly influential history of Australian rules football, Geoffrey Blainey promoted the idea that the sport constituted a 'game of our own'. In making this claim, Blainey suggested the sport was the outcome of Anglo-Australian cultural innovations. In raising the prospect of an Aboriginal football ethic we question this assertion and ask who is really taking this indigenous sport forward today.

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Publication title

Griffith Review

Volume

53

Pagination

167-176

ISSN

1839-2954

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Text Publishing Company

Place of publication

Australia

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Copyright 2016 the authors

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Social ethics; Organised sports; Men's health

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