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Opportunity of a lifetime sets up sights on Australian sevens dream
After receiving a special invitation, a 14-year-old football prodigy has attende...
Andrew Mathieson 15 May 2025
Rugby Australia rules Folau ineligible to play British & Irish Lions
Rugby Australia has set out its criteria over player eligibility for an historic...
Andrew Mathieson 2 Apr 2025
Aussies call up former schoolboy prodigy for Sevens
Former schoolboy sensation Hadley Tonga is set to light up Perth after being nam...
Justin Chadwick 17 Jan 2025
Longbottom comes alive in quarter-final win, offers touching tribute to his grandfather
Indigenous sevens veteran Maurice Longbottom has secured Australia a path into t...
Andrew Mathieson 27 Jul 2024
‘Game changing’ western New South Wales pathway program sees Narromine teen Olympics bound
A western New South Wales teenager is heading the Paris Olympics after participa...
Callan Morse 5 Jul 2024
The Tokyo Olympic skateboarders that inspired Australia's new Indigenous Games apparel

The shirt Dharawal man Maurice Longbottom wore around the Tokyo Olympic village between rugby sevens matches has indirectly inspired a change of apparel to fully recognise the First Nations' contribut...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Mar 10, 2024
Ella Sevens tournament produces more Ellas to turn up for annual sevens competition

Think of the Ellas – pick any one of the Indigenous Wallabies brothers, Mark, Gary, or Glen – and their revolutionary style of play in their 1980s Test heyday was more sevens-like than the...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Mar 8, 2024
Longbottom takes a sidestep for 18-year-old son of a gun

It is not often that Maurice Longbottom – of all Indigenous talents that embodies the true spirit of Australian running rugby – is upstaged on his field of expertise by a rookie.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Nov 24, 2023
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