Joe Gorman

'A compelling read which evokes great memories and highlights the importance of rugby league to this state.' – Mal Meninga For more than 40 years, rugby league has embodied all the hopes and dreams, contradictions and tensions of life in the Sunshine State. The game speaks to Queenslanders' sense of being the underdog and the outsider – a powerful undercurrent...

In The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, journalist and historian Joe Gorman explores the rise and fall of Australia's first national football competition and shows how soccer came to practise and embody multiculturalism long before it became government policy. Drawing on archival research and interviews with players, supporters, and club officials, he tells the incredible and often-unknown stories of...