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1 Marngrook, Tom Wills and the Continuing Denial of Indigenous History : On the Origins of Australian Football Jenny Hocking , Nell Reidy , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 83-93)

'The Indigenous game of marngrook and its claimed connection to Australian rules football has provoked unusually intense debate.1. Dismissed as ‘an emotional belief’, ‘falsifying history’, ‘lacking any intellectual credibility’—who could have imagined that the seemingly innocuous matter of an Indigenous game of football would meet with such invective.' (Introduction)
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