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Recently down at Dunsborough and noticed this photo on the side of a garbage bin. Its a photo from 1956, the bloke second from the left is making this sign .... Although it is in reverse, with the palm facing away. Thought it a bit weird, because although hand signs are as old as hands...

Italy has threatened to prevent vessels sailing under foreign flags from disembarking migrants rescued in the Mediterranean in its ports, saying it was struggling to cope with the crisis. taly has brought in over half a million boat migrants since 2014, and a record 181,000 came last year. This...

Migrant crisis: Italy threatens to shut ports. 28 June 2017 Italy has threatened to stop vessels of other countries from bringing migrants to its ports. The warning came as Italy's EU representative, Maurizio Massari, warned in a letter to the bloc the situation had become "unsustainable"...

At what point do we point at stats and say yep GWS is actually a success?. 2 or 3 days ago the Giants broke 20,000 members, wasn't that long ago the AFL considered 20,000 members as the point all clubs needed to be at. Record amount of junior teams in their second home Canberra - 125 teams...

Couple of instances here, seen plenty of Dockers and Eagles flags on pretty big flagpoles in peoples house around Perth, but here are a couple of unusual ways of showing support. Dockers House in Kal Think i snapped this in Wembley Downs, a Claremont footy club Mosaic, which has had some...

I get that Southern state football and in particular Victorian football has always been more physical and close in football than Western Australia which has traditionally been faster and more open probably because the grounds have been larger and conditions better in WA, but i happened to watch...

http://www.collingwoodfootytour.com/ Sounds interesting!... i think is a great idea, anyone done it ? Places you'll visit on the tour:- the suburbs of Collingwood & Abbotsford Victoria Park; John Wren’s tote (incl. the secret entrances & exits); the pub that players first used as...

My Missus keeps on getting pretty insulting texts from someone and obviously we don't know who it is, the phone number shows up but is there a way to track down this number and find the owner of this phone. We have worked out that they are with telstra and it is a iphone. Cheers in advance.

Whilst stumbling around on trove i happened to come across the program for the 1908 Football Jubilee. Quite interesting reading in parts. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-39637772/view?partId=nla.obj-39637780#page/n0/mode/1up

Reading through Football reminiscences - Old-time players and incidents - i noticed the name Sandilands, which struck a chord as although it is not a unusual surname it is not a Smith or Jones, i remembered the name from reading a series of Articles in past papers NZ about a team in NZ called...

From time to time a see photos and wonder who the players may be, saw this one today and have ( i think ) narrowed it down to a 1947 Carnival in Tassie between WA and Vic

Recently while researching some family history i came across some old articles on trove about football in places like Hillgrove and Narrabri in Northern NSW. Hillgrove is now a deserted gold mining town while Narrabri still ticks along, these places are far further North than Newcastle which...

Speaking ahead of the historic finals clash between the Sydney Swans and the GWS Giants, Mr Fitzpatrick told the ABC's Saturday Agenda the 20-30 year view was to become the most popular sport across the entire east coast of Australia. "We'd like to be the number one code," he said. "That's...

They have, the players coming out of the Riverina dried up and it is now returning to the old days, same as the ACT or perhaps you included ACT in Riverina, its pretty close

Does anyone have any idea when footy shorts came out with elastic or some other means to keep them up, i have seen plenty of old football photos with footy shorts being held up by belts. What year did belts go out or roughly what year, i am trying to roughly date a photo. Thanks in advance. :)

Interesting article the other day in the SMH about the Barassi Line, who termed it and how the term was originally based around a WW2 defence plan - The "Barassi Line" was evidently a play on the "Brisbane Line" – an abandoned WWII defence plan to sacrifice all land north of the Queensland...

Mullen asserts that shipyard workers in the Scottish towns of Leith and Clydebank played Australian Rules football in the pre–First World War period. This was not referenced and has not since been substantiated. Contemporary research points to ‘intriguing hints’ that an Australian football...