Home movie footage from the Australian Rugby Union Tour of 1939 to 1940, filmed onboard the RMS Mooltan.

Hodgson, Windon and another player make themselves useful to a Sister by balling yarn and the team undertake more established drills to maintain their fitness. Some of the men can be seen wear

The Australian Rugby Union Tour stops over in Colombo, Aden and Suez Canal

Mark Ella is a former star rugby union player who captained the Australian Wallabies team 10 times and represented his country 25 times.

This clip is from Bicentennial Minutes, a series of 60-second snapshots of Australian history produced in 1988 to mark 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict shi

For the first time in Australia’s history the field of sport became a political arena when the South African Springboks came to Australia for a six-week tour at the height of their country’s aparth

Police, bomb threats, barbed wire, protests ... A tour by the Springboks rugby union team in winter 1971 galvanised anti-apartheid protesters and transformed Canberra.