Tag: Australias
Is this ‘the great hidden chapter’ behind one of Australia’s biggest sports?
During Lin Jong’s AFL career, footy fans would sometimes mistake him as the first Chinese-Australian to play at the top level. They were off by…
One of Australia’s smallest football leagues is fighting to survive
As a community grapples with change, one of Australia’s smallest footy leagues fights to survive. On a miserable Saturday — the “windiest of the season”…
King Gizzard kicks in to give a small town a lift and create what may be Australia’s coolest footy team
On a winter’s afternoon this year, Cassie Harrison jogs off the field of her coastal home footy ground to, as she cheerily terms it, “lighten…
Former AFL star takes ‘Australia’s worst footy team’ to their first grand final
In a country sport that has plenty of heartache and battling, the Albany Sharks are a stand-out. Key points: Albany Sharks to play in first…
Australia’s most remote Aussie rules football and softball league a feast of ‘hangers’
The A?angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands is home to the most remote Australian rules football competition in the country, spanning more than 200,000 square kilometres…