Tim Butcher Tim Butcher i(10078331 works by)
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1 The Aboriginal Football Ethic : Where the Rules Get Flexible Barry Judd , Tim Butcher , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , July no. 53 2016; (p. 167-176)

'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.'(Introduction)
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