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How we ended up with four separate football codes

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Australia is almost unique in the world sporting landscape in having not one, but four separate and competing football codes.

This unusual situation came about from a series of almost accidental historical events in the late 19th and early 20th century.

It was also probably partially due to the fact that, until Federation in 1901, Australia was actually home to six politically separate and geogr...


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