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| NRL launches reconciliation action plan 1 February 2008 - Rugby league has acknowledged its importance to indigenous people by becoming the first sport in Australia to launch a formal reconciliation action plan. |
| Grand Slam champ Goolagong uses camp to search for next aboriginal player or coach 13 January 2008 - Canadian Press - MELBOURNE, Australia - A group of aboriginal kids gather around their lifelong hero on a wind-swept tennis court in suburban Melbourne. Listening to her every word, they watch closely as Evonne Goolagong pulls the racket head back and gracefully follows through a mock shot, their mouths agape. |
| Statue salutes a champion on field and off 10 December 2007 - WHEN Doug Nicholls left the bush and went to Melbourne to play football, the trainers at Carlton were so offended by the colour of his skin that they refused to rub him down. |
| Relaxed Mundine sees a vision splendid 1 December 2007 - PERHAPS it has as much to do with last weekend's election result as the new perspective his career-threatening eye injury has given him. But approaching Anthony Mundine's comeback fight at Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 10, the Man is feeling "comfortable and relaxed". |
| Bradley banks on Aboriginal players making their mark 25 January 2004 - Prime Minister's XI batsman Matthew Bradley believes it is only a matter of time before more Aboriginal cricketers are representing Australia. Bradley, whose mother is a Wiradjuri woman and comes from central NSW, will represent ATSIC in the Prime Minister's XI game against India at Manuka Oval, Canberra on Wednesday. |
| Stars, skills and soccer gear delivered to outback communities
20 April 2004 - Australian Sports Commission Media release - National Soccer coach Frank Farina and Olympic squad members Fred Agius and Belinda Dawney are this week helping to teach outback kids the joys of soccer. This is an initiative of the Indigenous Sport Program and Laureus Sport for good Foundation-funded Soccer in the Outback tour in north-west Queensland. |
| Australians broaden the game's horizons 22 July 2003 - cricInfo.com (UK) - The Australian cricketers should have been playing the final day of their Test match with Bangladesh today, but instead they spent the day eating buffalo and fishing with Aborigines on the remote Tiwi Islands north of Darwin. |
| Olympic victory defines Freeman career 17 July 2003 - Daily Mirror (UK) - Not only did she have to carry the hopes of Australia's track and field team at an Olympics on home soil but also the aspirations of an entire people. As Australia's most prominent Aboriginal sports person, Freeman had been thrust into the country's 200-year struggle for reconciliation between blacks and whites when she carried the Aboriginal flag on a lap of honour during the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada -- in breach of team rules. |
| Wake up Australia, racism is a problem 20 January 2003 - The Guardian (UK) - The Darren Lehmann case has exposed a double standard in the Australian cricket community. Normally, moments of the highest pressure in sport are held to reveal character. Steve Waugh’s toughness and Shane Warne’s genius are revealed precisely in the heat of the moment. |
| Freeman hangs up golden spikes 16 July 2003 - Guardian (UK) - Cathy Freeman, who came to symbolise the 2000 Sydney Olympics by lighting the flame at the opening ceremony and then fulfilling the hopes of Australia by striking gold in the 400 metres, announced her retirement last night. |
| Forgotten Aborigine team who changed cricket forever 8 March 2002 - Guardian (UK) - They were cricket's forgotten heroes - a team of Aborigines who came to England in 1868 viewed as little more than a joke, and ended up changing the face of cricket forever. Now a previously unseen archive of photographs, scorebooks and other memorabilia chronicling the first - and last - tour by native Australians has surfaced after languishing in an attic for more than 80 years. |
| Flame of Freedom burns in Victoria Park The last time an Aboriginal campfire burned in Victoria Park could well have been more than 200 years ago. The Gadigal tribe of the Eora people, traditional Aboriginal inhabitants of the area now known as Sydney's inner west, are known to have used the park as a meeting place long before European settlement. The fire then would have been for utility and warmth as well as a place to gather in tribal community. |
| Flame of reconciliation ends its trek to Sydney The Olympic torch is not the only flame that has traversed New South Wales. The alternative flame is a humble glow - it was not accompanied by a convoy of shiny vehicles, you can't buy it, and famous people are not queueing to run with it.It's a small flame, flickering on a piece of old wood cradled to the chest of Kevin "Uncle Kev" Buzzacott, a South Australian Arabunna elder. |
| Aboriginal cry for freedom echoes cries for Freeman 26 September 2000 - Guardian UK - David Hopps watches the race in a makeshift inner-city 'tented embassy'. At the Aboriginal tented embassy in Sydney's Victoria Park, safeguards were being taken to ensure Cathy Freeman's victory. |
| Pride of the land 26 September 2000 - This was Australia's longest minute. This was the breathless, unforgettable minute. The 112,524 people at Olympic Park last night - a record for the stadium - will never forget it. Few Australians can ever forget it. This was the minute when the nation's heart leapt in the breast and thudded against the ribs like a muffled drum, when the nation's gut churned. |
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