Abstract
ABSTRACT Acts of resistance to racism in Australian sport are associated mainly with the 1990s and onwards, especially in Australian rules football. A century earlier, however, on the running tracks of Victoria and in the swimming baths at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, a Fijian athlete called Sala Bogi stood up to racism on several occasions. This article analyses the personal and legal trials of Bogi in his encounters with, and resistance to, racism. While his case conjures later examples of racism, including the prohibition on the use of swimming pools by Aboriginal people in New South Wales towns in the mid-20th century, it holds deeper significance. Through his personal agency and public stance against racism, Bogi suggests that individual resistance to institutionalised racism has a longer history than previously realised.
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