Browsing Tag Melbourne
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Australian Rules
“Who do you barrack for, Tony?” A Timeless Tale of Australian Naturalisation
Station Pier in Port Melbourne was the first point of entry for hundreds of thousands of Australian immigrants seeking a better life in the The Lucky Country. One ...
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Pop Culture
I went to see Taylor Swift and she was great – but us “Wogs” do it better
I was never a Taylor Swift fan. Me? A fan of Taylor? Pfft, please. I’m 30 years old! In the words of Cher Horowitz, as IF. Recently, though, I found myself at one of her sold-out Melbourne concerts. ...
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Football
How Melbourne Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Soccer (well almost)
“Perhaps only in Melbourne does a brooding, hidebound and monolithic structure of feeling dominate, where other codes are sometimes humoured and usually dismissed as inferior.” – Dr Ian Syson, academic ...
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Australian Rules 2
Priced out, scheduled out: How the AFL lost 500,000 bums on seats in Melbourne
You’re the biggest act in town, so you’re entitled to a bit of hubris. Your policy of ground rationalisation at the end of the 20th century transformed a ...
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