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Jock Austin
Jock Austin
Personal information
Full name	Herbert George Austin
Nickname(s)	Jock
Date of birth	16 March 1938
Place of birth	Framlingham, Victoria
Date of death	3 May 1990 (aged 52)
Coaching career
Years	Club
1980s	Fitzroy Stars

Herbert George "Jock" Austin (16 March 1938 − 3 May 1990) was an Indigenous Australian community leader.^[4] He was a Gunditjmara man who served as the coach and president of the Fitzroy Stars Football Club in its early years.^[5]

His son, Troy Austin, is also a former Fitzroy Stars president and currently serves as a member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria after being elected in 2023.^[6]^[7]

Biography

Austin was born in 1938 under a gumtree at Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve as the son of Ella Clark and Cyril Austin.^[2] He had 11 siblings.^[8]

He moved to the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1950s where met Patricia Prior, whom he raised two children with.^[8] He participated in Australian rules football and boxing, while also working as a boilermaker and having a job laying tramway track.^[8]

Austin founded the Melbourne Aboriginal Youth Sport and Recreation Co-operative (MAYSAR), an Aboriginal youth sport centre and boxing gym, in 1982.^[2]^[9]^[10]

In the 1970s, Austin became associated with the newly-formed Fitzroy Stars Football Club, a football club run by Indigenous Australians.^[11] He introduced the club's first junior team in 1978.^[12] After the Northern Metropolitan Football League, which the Stars were competing in, disbanded in 1980, Austin was a driving force in the club staying afloat.^[12]

When the YCW Football League (YCWFL) folded in 1986, the Stars applied for entry in 36 local competitions, but received rejections from every single one.^[12] As a result, Austin (who was also serving as club administrator) formed the Melbourne North Football League (MNFL) in 1989.^[12]^[13]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c "Today we acknowledge Herbert 'Jock' Austin on what would have been his 80th birthday". Facebook. Fitzroy Stars Football & Netball Club. 16 March 1938. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "JOCK Austin 30 year anniversary of his passing - Sunday 3rd May 2020". Trove. MAYSAR, Melbourne Aboriginal Youth Sport and Recreation Co-Operative. 2 May 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "Yarra to mark January 26 with a tribute to Herbert 'Jock' Austin". Yarra City Council. 15 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "The Fitzroy Stars Football & Netball Club Have A Story To Tell". 3KND. 16 March 2022. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "The Fitzroy Stars - A Place for Community". Deadly Story. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "Troy Austin". First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Herbert 'Jock' Austin". First Peoples - State Relations. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ Dinham, Abby (30 May 2017). "Melbourne gym inspiring next generation of Indigenous boxers". SBS News. Archived from the original on 4 August 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "Barracking, booing, boxing". ABC Listen. 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ "Fitzroy Stars: Melbourne's only Aboriginal footy club - in pictures". Guardian Australia. 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gorman, Joe (4 March 2016). "Jason Mifsud and Fitzroy Stars: a man on a mission at a club that means so much". Guardian Australia. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ Evans, Michael (31 August 1988). "An Aboriginal community's sporting life". Trove. Tribune. p. 11. Retrieved 4 October 2024.