Use the catalogue standard search to find titles, authors, or subjects.

• If you get too many results, use the Limit your search options (at the right of the results page) to display only the items of interest. e.g. audio (oral histories) or manuscripts
• If you need to widen your search, click on subject headings in an item’s catalogue record to find other material related to that subject.

Examples of subject searches you can try include:

• Minorities in sports -- Australia
• Immigrants - Australia -- Recreation

You can also search for specific sports, e.g.

• Soccer -- Australia
• Basketball -- Australia -- [State/territory]
• Skis and Skiing -- Australia -- [Periodicals] -- [History]

• Sporting immigrants: sport and ethnicity in Australia edited by Philip A. Mosely…[et al.]
• Sport and ethnicity by Rob Lynch, Tracy Taylor, Kristine Toohey
• Sporting nationalisms : identity, ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation edited by Mike Cronin and David Mayall
• Ethnic involvement in Australian soccer : a history 1950-1990 by Phillip [i.e. Philip] Mosely
• The death and life of Australian soccer by Joe Gorman
• Through thick and thin : the South Sydney Rabbitohs and their community by Charles Little
• Boom! : inside the NBL by Bret Harris
• Australian skiing : the first 100 years by Wendy Cross

The Library holds several oral history interviews with sporting immigrants which can be found searching our catalogue. The following are a selection:

• Rale Rasic interviewed by Roy Hay for the Sport oral history project [sound recording] - freely available to listen online.
  • Zvonimir ‘Rale’ Rasic is a Serbian born immigrant who played with and coached the Australian football (soccer) team. He was the first coach to take Australia to the World Cup finals in West Germany in 1974.
• Walter Lebedew interviewed by Rob Linn for the Sport oral history project [sound recording] - freely available to listen online.
  • Walter Lebedew OAM was known as the ‘founding father’ of Volleyball Australia. After migrating to Australia from Russia as a 16-year-old in 1949, Walter taught himself to play and referee volleyball and became heavily involved in the growth and administration of the sport in Australia.
• Branko Filipi interviewed by Peter Read in the Peter Read collection of interviews conducted for his book entitled, Charles Perkins : a biography [sound recording]
  • Branko Filipi was a significant leader in the Adelaide Croatian Soccer Club. In 1954 he became the club’s president and remained so for 14 years. In 1958, Charles Perkins (better known as Charlie Perkins), the leading Aboriginal Arrernte activist, joined the team and later represented Australia. This is one of forty interviews conducted by Peter Read for his book, Charles Perkins : a biography.

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