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AFL struggles to escape its past amid latest account of systematic racism in the game – The Guardian
Indigenous Round may be a step in the right direction, but the league must prepare itself for more stories like Robert Muir’s to emerge
The premise behind the AFLs Sir Doug Nicholls Round is sound and admirable: for one batch of games per year, the sport celebrates Indigenous footballers and the immeasurable contribution they have made to the Australian game. It is a paying of dues of sorts, but for a code that has forever endured an ignoble relationship with racism it is at least some attempt at narrowing the gap between white privilege and black disadvantage. It is a recognition of Indigenous culture where in decades past ther…
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