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KB: a life in football
Par Kevin Bartlett, Rhett Bartlett. 2011
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Kevin Bartlett played 403 games for the Richmond Football Club and was one of its biggest stars during a golden…
era of five premierships in 13 years, who parted the club amid tremendous acrimony and did not return for more than 15 years.Brave hearts
Par Kevin Walters. 1999
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Australian rugby star's story. Captain of the Brisbane Broncos, he is now raising three sons alone, after losing his wife to cancer.
The footy lady: the trailblazing story of Susan Alberti
Par Stephanie Asher. 2017
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No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms,…
courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes; and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL’s move into women’s football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took over their construction business, becoming a female pioneer in the building industry. When her daughter was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes she embarked on a mission to find a cure. When her beloved football club the Western Bulldogs was threatened with annihilation she worked as vice-president to bring home the 2016 premiership flag. Confronted with the exclusion of women from AFL, she battled to open the game to all and kept up the fight with money and on-ground support when others were ready to signal defeat.Empire, war, tennis and me
Par Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
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For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.