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Title:	Background Briefing
Material Description	Radio transcripts
Year:	2001
Creator Home Page:	http://www.abc.net.au
Original URL of this page:	http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/index/bbchronoidx01.htm
Notes:	Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National Select items (related to sport) only are archived. Background Briefing home page

Contents

• AFL's Level Playing Field  
  Broadcast date: 02/12/2001
  Aussie rules is quintessentially Australian, a Victorian phenomenon that now spans the country.
  It has a half billion-dollar TV contract and a caring, sharing attitude.
  But it's not ideology - it's business.

• President of the Club: The Labbozzetta Years at Marconi  
  Broadcast date: 23/09/2001
  Club Marconi began 45 years ago, a tiny social club formed by migrant market gardeners.
  Today it is a huge licensed club, with soccer stadium, having grown rapidly under the leadership of the charismatic and dictatorial president Tony Labbozzetta.
  But his 15 year reign at the club was also marked by bitter personal politics, claims of intimidation and vendettas, and years of litigation.
  After supporting Tony Labbozzetta for so long, the members have turned.
  What happened?
  

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© 2002 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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