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Australia. Having spent most of the game development budgets on what he believed to be a mildly successful attempt to establish the game in Sydney, in the late 1920s he began to note the rise of Gaelic football and entertained the idea of international matches and hybrid rules. However by this time most of the local leagues outside Australia had already gone into permanent recess and other football codes had become more firmly ingrained. Speaking in 1929 on the status of the code internationally, Hickey noted that the visiting
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premier status among the professional sports leagues. Early into his term as football chief he oversaw a diversion of promotional budgets for international game development domestically to New South Wales (and to a lesser extent
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game being played overseas the primary focus would be on inter-state competition and that he would not attempt to "oust rugby" in places where it was growing in popularity. There was also a clear
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