Past Programs
Australian Football League - 2008
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The Maharajah of Moorabbin
07/11/2008
Robert Harvey is an old-school Aussie Rules player. He played his whole senior career with just one club, St Kilda, and outlasted almost all of his contemporaries.
The last quarter: Martin Flanagan on footy
19/09/2008
One of Australia's most respected sports writers, Martin Flanagan, has just published a book that chronicles a quarter of a century of writing on sport, life and politics.
Lethal footsteps: The Matthews legacy
05/09/2008
Leigh Matthews has been a powerful force in Australian Football, from his days as a star player at Hawthorn, through to his stunning achievements as a coach at both Collingwood and Brisbane AFL clubs. He's a hard act to follow, so how do you assess the legacy of a legend.
Footywild
29/08/2008
The third Australian football international cup is about to get underway in Victoria. And this week on the Sports Factor we have a special report on the state of AFL in South Africa, where hundreds of young players are taking it up instead of soccer or rugby union.
(Due to copyright restrictions parts of this program have been removed)
Launching a rocket: Rodney Eade and Australian Rules football
01/08/2008
For many years Rodney Eade has been an important figure in Australian Rules football - as a player with Hawthorn, as a coach with the Sydney Swans and now the Western Bulldogs, and simply as one of the game's most interesting thinkers. Meet him on this week's Sports Factor.
Sport, violence and the law
09/05/2008
In the old days, what happened on the field stayed on the field, but some argue times have changed. When does on-field violence amount to a breach of the law, rather than simply the rules of the game?
Aussie Rules at 150
14/03/2008
This year is the 150th anniversary of Aussie Rules and to mark the event, the AFL has commissioned publisher Geoff Slattery to produce a book detailing the game and its history.
Footy with the territory touch
14/03/2008
In Australia's northern tropics they're not thinking about the beginning of another Aussie Rules season, they're getting ready for the Grand Final. So forget 'September football', in Darwin it's mid-March when the NTFL finals fever breaks out.
Football footprint: Playing an expansive game
22/02/2008
The AFL is on the march, marking out new territory smack bang in the middle of rugby league's suburban heartland in western Sydney and the Gold Coast. Just good marketing or has the AFL sensed that rugby league has taken its eye off the development ball?
