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Australia’s first international cricket team found fame in the UK. At home, they were betrayed – CNN
Until recently, most Australians didn’t know anything about the journey that took 13 Aboriginal cricketers from farmsteads in Victoria to England in 1868 — making…
Harrow, Australia (CNN)Growing up in the small community of Harrow in southern Australia, 86-year-old Lachie Turner spent his childhood hearing legends of the great Aboriginal cricketer Johnny Mullagh.
“The story used to be that he could win a match, batting with just the handle of a pickaxe,” said Turner, with a smile.
Mullagh was a hero in Harrow, and the surrounding livestock communities, where homesteads dot the landscape along miles of single-lane dirt roads.
At a time when being Indigenous…
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