The Anti-Football League
Melbourne is routinely depicted as a sport loving city with our devotion to Australian Rules football characterised as an obsession. The writer George Johnston, author of the novel My Brother… Read More ›
Sport
Rob Roy hill climb
The Rob Roy hill climb is a car time trial in Smiths Gully, Victoria. It was initially established by the Light Car Club of Australia and began in 1937 and ran… Read More ›
Are you a fan too?
Without the crowd, it would be just another game of footy.
Skiing Marnong
Thousands of years before alpine resorts, chalets and four-wheel drives, Victoria’s Mt Buller was inhabited by Aboriginal tribes, in particular the Taungurong people (also spelt Taungurung). A Taungurong woman is quoted… Read More ›
Origins of Australian football: Victoria’s early history
Good footballers are often described as ‘dangerous players’, but none more so than Alex Bruce who had a prosthetic hook on one arm, which made him very dangerous indeed! Less… Read More ›
Christmas and the Ashes
One of world sport’s most famous trophies, cricket’s Ashes urn, was presented for the first time on 24 December 1882.
Melbourne Cup facts
Celebrate this race that stops a nation by learning some key Melbourne Cup facts.
