by NRB | 23 May 2019 | Non-fiction |
The high visibility of Aboriginal players in the Australian Football League is well recognised and their skills admired. But as Roy Hay argues in the pithy subtitle of his penetrating new history, they did not come from nowhere. At the outset I should disclose that...
by NRB | 8 Sep 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I finished 44th out of 114 players in my AFL tipping competition. A mediocre result and well below my personal best. The winner of the competition averaged slightly under six correct tips per round, well down on previous winning scores. It was an unusual season, with...
by NRB | 11 Sep 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
It’s been a tumultuous year in the AFL, marked tragically by the death of recently appointed Adelaide coach Phil Walsh before he had the chance to put his stamp on the team. This sad event was handled with great dignity and respect by the AFL as a whole and by all...
by NRB | 8 Nov 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I used to get the news from a combination of reading the broadsheets, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian, listening to ABC radio and watching the 7pm ABC television news. With my eyesight now making reading papers too difficult (I maintain, without objective...
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