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From its origins as the Victorian Football League to becoming a national competition in the 1980s, AFL is arguably the nation's most popular sport.

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Hear the only known recording of AFL legend Haydn Bunton, 'the Bradman of football'.

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Sixty years after the career of one of Australian Rules football's greatest players came to a sudden end, rare footage of Essendon champion John Coleman has been re-discovered, preserved and releas

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Superbly captured in one uninterrupted shot under the direction of HSV7’s football broadcasting pioneer Alf Potter, 25-year-old Carlton full forward Alex Jesaulenko made a perfectly timed run and l

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Second-half highlights from the VFL Grand Final between Collingwood and Carlton, 26 September 1970. 

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First-half highlights from the VFL Grand Final between Collingwood and Carlton, 26 September 1970. 

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Rare broadcast coverage released on the 50th anniversary of the AFL’s most famous grand final.

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More than thirty years after the memorable 1970 VFL Grand Final, good friends Alex Jesaulenko and Mike Williamson join Bert Newton on the Good Morning Australia couch to recreate the

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In July 2019 the NFSA hosted a screening of director Ian Darling’s documentary The Final Quarter, about the events that provoked heated public debate and the retirement of champi

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Director Ian Darling, ex-footballer Michael O’Loughlin, and AFL Inclusion and Social Policy Manager Tanya Hosch discuss the Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter and racism in sport with ABC's Fran Kelly