Journal article
The aboriginal football ethic: Where the rules get flexible
T Butcher, B Judd
Griffith Review | Taylor & Francis | Published : 2016
Abstract
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.