Martin Flanagan

Martin Flanagan, journalist at the Age, has often written of the great Wonders of Australian Sport, his love of the AFL, of the importance of Aboriginal players in the highest echelons of Australian sport. A few years ago he threw himself at the mysterious and distressed figure of Tom Wills – our early Colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 – and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules. A hero for several original clubs...