Horse Drawn: John Rae and ‘The Turning of the First Turf’

by Rachel Franks | Jul 8, 2020 | 0 Comments

John Rae is, perhaps, my favourite dead white male. On the surface, he’s really rather ordinary. An administrator who was meticulous and ambitious, he was a career public servant. He woke up, got dressed, went to work and came home again. He married and had six...

Sydney’s Lady Footballers

by Minna Muhlen-Schulte | Jul 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

Last week Australia and New Zealand won their joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on Friday, prompting us to think across codes about some other legendary women football players in Sydney who played their first game almost 100 years ago. As the first...

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