Barry Judd

Barry Judd

Barry Judd is professor of Indigenous studies at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is a descendent of the Pitjantjatjara people of north-west South Australia, British immigrants and Afghan cameleers, and is a leading Australian scholar on the subject of Aboriginal participation in Australian sports.

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The Aboriginal football ethic

EssayIN 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...

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