[2] There he was treated with kindness, sent to the local school, and met other future Aboriginal leaders and activists, including Charles Perkins, John Kundereri Moriarty, Richie Bray, Vince Copley, Malcolm Cooper, and others.

He had stints at Barnet and Preston North End (although he did not make a first team appearance), before returning to Australia at the suggestion of his former schoolmate and teammate Perkins.

[15][16] Briscoe's memoir, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family was published by ANU Press in 2010 as an open access book.

It "shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century.

It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'"[17] He also wrote a number of books and reports on Aboriginal health and history, including: Briscoe died on 30 June 2023 at the age of 84.