The game that made a nation*

How have sports and games contributed to the Australia we know today? Before Federation in 1901, Australia was a group of six colonies, loosely united by the fact that they were ruled by the British Crown but who felt they had a common destiny. They did not surrender their independence easily; the propensity to shut out citizens of other colonies has been revived by the covid19 pandemic.

Western Australia, which has always had the loosest connection of all t…

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