"Lest We Forget": Sport in the Cultural Memory of Australians
Authors
Richard Light
Steve Georgakis
Abstract
During the Rugby Union World Cup held in Australia in 2003, the nationally circulated Australian newspaper printed a picture of Jonny Wilkinson on the front page of the sports section with the headline: "Is that all you've got?" London's Daily Mirror responded with the same caption and a picture of Kylie Minogue. But this isn't all Australia has got. It has Kylie and sport. Many scholars might argue there is a great deal more to Australia than sport, but at the same time, sport has been a significant force in defining the national consciousness.
The University of Sydney acknowledges that its campuses and facilities sit on the ancestral lands of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have for thousands of generations exchanged knowledge for the benefit of all.
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