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Unseen trends and the society we are becoming.

Paul Frijters
July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
Societies are evolving and complex, which often makes it hard to see at any moment where things are going. It was thus with the move...
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Aborigines and the National Game — by the late John Hirst

Nicholas Gruen
July 21, 2021
[caption id="attachment_35067" align="aligncenter" width="862"] Source: Winter in Australia: Football in the Richmond Paddock (1866) is the earliest known image of a football match in Melbourne.(Supplied:...

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