Aboriginal Rules: The Black History of Australian Football

Gorman, Sean; Judd, Barry; Reeves, Keir; Osmond, Gary; Klugman, Matthew; McCarthy, Gavan

doi:10.1080/09523367.2015.1124861

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“…The following exchange is also instructive: The footballer clearly has a prominent place, but as has been established in other contexts (Tonts & Atherley, 2010), what is central here is that the football match offers a site for the community to come together. Yet, as Gorman, Judd and colleagues point out, "the social and cultural life of many Indigenous Australian communities is much discussed but surprisingly under-researched" (Gorman et al, 2015(Gorman et al, , p. 1949). There is scope for scholarship that takes seriously and addresses the young Indigenous man (and the rest of the community) on the sidelines of an urban sports field, who is unable to cast himself in the footballer role, but is still interpolated in relation to the football outing as a member of the Inala community.…”

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“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community

Mukandi

Singh

Brady

et al. 2019

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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There is a growing literature on Indigenous masculinities written by scholars in North America, Hawai‘i and New Zealand which draws on a variety of approaches. While there are signs of scholarly interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia, this has yet to translate into a distinct body of work. This article is a potential opening onto such a future corpus, foregrounding and privileging how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men understand themselves. Interviews with 13 men, ranging in age from young teenagers through to Elders—among whom were Traditional Owners, school pupils, university students, community workers, health professionals and retirees—yielded a conception of Indigenous masculinities not concerned with recovering a lost masculinity. Rather, what was presented to us is a distinct conception of Indigenous masculinities rooted in place; a relationality motivated by an intergenerational sense of responsibility; a nuanced idea of “acting hard.”

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“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community

Mukandi

Singh

Brady

et al. 2019

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…The results identify that all clubs and the AFL have a strong community emphasis (see Table 1). It has been established in a historical context that the AFL and clubs are at the forefront for reconciliation for Indigenous participation (Gorman et al, 2015;Judd and Butcher, 2016). All organizations are active with programs across the community.…”

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“…Indigenous participation in the AFL was often associated with racial abuse and on-field sledging. However, in 1993, the United Nations Year of Indigenous People, the AFL actively recognized and initiated redress towards reconciliation for Indigenous players (Gorman et al, 2015;Judd and Butcher, 2016;Philpot, 2016) While the AFL is certainly attempting to develop its persona within the Indigenous space, it has certainly not been without its detractors in its pursuit of this. Hallinan and Judd (2009) highlighted how the AFL sees its role as being beyond simply a code of football, and that it has attempted to be an agent of social change.…”

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Indigenous player inclusion in the Australian Football League

Ferrer

Turner

2017

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The aim of this paper is to audit the efforts made around the support of Indigenous players within the Australian Football League (AFL). Design/Methodology/Approach: Content analysis of the publically available information on websites of organizations associated with the AFL was undertaken to identify the extent of programs and policies around Indigenous representation, inclusion, and development. Findings: The AFL, as an organization, has a high percentage of Indigenous players (employees) in comparison to the wider Australian workforce representation. Largely, Indigenous representation within the AFL is merit based, prioritized on an individual's ability to play football at an elite level. The website audit identified a number of inconsistencies in the public personas portrayed by the AFL and organizations aligned to it such as the AFL Players Association (AFLPA) and clubs. The findings raise a number of questions for future research. Research limitations/implications: The main limitation is that the website audit represents a very small insight into the current situation and does not provide a depth of analysis into the circumstances around Indigenous inclusion within the AFL. The audit also is very focused on one sporting organization which may or may not be representative of the sport industry. Originality/value: The research introduces a number of questions for future discovery.

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“…However, this does not mean that racial discrimination is absenton or off-the-field, past or present (Cleland et al, 2019;Gorman et al, 2016). Indeed, it is important to emphasize that the widespread adulation afforded to Aboriginal sportsmen and women has, on well-known Second, there has been antagonism towards Indigenous athletes who have stood up against racism.…”

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Fair Go? Indigenous Rugby League Players and the Racial Exclusion of the Australian National Anthem

Cleland

Adair

Parry

2020

Communication & Sport

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This article explores the implications of widely publicized national anthem protests by several Indigenous rugby league players in Australia during 2019. With a goal of doing justice to these Indigenous voices (and in this case also their silence), a critical race theory framework was deployed to both listen to and interpret the reasons behind the protests. The data source was online media reports that centered on the perspectives of players and rugby league officials, along with responses to the protests by prominent journalists and politicians via online opinion pieces. The findings indicate that the voices of Indigenous athletes in Australia are important in raising concerns about nationalist rituals and symbols that, by their colonialist nature, subjugate Aboriginal peoples. Importantly, the Indigenous rugby league players were not alone in their campaign. The Recognition in Anthem Project, which began in 2017, indicates that the perspectives of these protesting rugby players were part of a wider discussion about change. The movement for a new national anthem, therefore, was not just isolated to sport, and this appears to have provided the Indigenous rugby players—as social commentators—with atypical influence.

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Aboriginal Rules: The Black History of Australian Football

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community

“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community

Indigenous player inclusion in the Australian Football League

Fair Go? Indigenous Rugby League Players and the Racial Exclusion of the Australian National Anthem

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