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‘My Aboriginality made me invisible’: Marcia Ella-Duncan’s uppercut for netball – Wide World of Sports
‘My Aboriginality made me invisible’
Aboriginal trailblazer Marcia Ella-Duncan has delivered an uppercut to Australian netball, saying the game had not done enough to encourage and support its Indigenous athletes.
In 1986, Ella-Duncan became the first Indigenous woman to play for Australia but 34 years on only one other, Sharon Finnan-White, has followed in her footsteps.
In the opening to this weekend’s Suncorp Super Netball Indigenous Round broadcast on Nine, Ella-Duncan says that is simply not good enough.
“Coaches and select…
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