Albert Albert Pompey Austin: A man between two worlds

Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin (Poorne Yarriworri) was a man between two worlds in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was one of the most important multi-sports Indigenous persons of that era. In his brief life he was not just a footballer, but was also a cricketer, pedestrian (as athletes were called in those days), racehorse owner, jockey, boxer, horse thief, artist, explorer, savant, entertainer and musician, and a thorn in the side of those who wished to confine him and the survivors of his generation to remote ghettos on the fringe of Victoria.