![Sample our Sports and Leisure journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5949/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Sports-Leisure.jpg"})
Abstract
In this global twenty-first century world Aboriginal men and women are among some of the highest paid sportsmen and women in Australia. This dramatic shift in acceptance overcame decades of exclusion not just from the sporting arena but wider Australian society in general. This article examines the complexities of the Australian Aboriginal sporting experience including long entrenched racist barriers that denied Aboriginal participation on the sporting field.
Notes
1 CitationAdair and Tatz, ‘Darkness and a Little Light’, 6.
2 CitationPettman, Living in the Margins, 27.
3 The Koori Mail, 1999.
4 CitationRead, Charles Perkins, 48.
5 CitationBasedow, The Australian Aboriginal, 87.
6 CitationCashman, Paradise of Sport, 132.
7 CitationCashman, Paradise of Sport, 132
8 CitationTatz, Obstacle Race, 46.
9 Cashman, Paradise of Sport, 135.
10 Tatz, Obstacle Race, 70.
11 Tatz, Obstacle Race, 74.
12 Tatz, Obstacle Race, 75.
13 Tatz, Obstacle Race, 102.
14 CitationClarke, Wisdom Man, 190.
15 Tatz, Obstacle Race, 249.
16 CitationPerkins, A Bastard Like Me, 55.
17 CitationPerkins, A Bastard Like Me, 32.
18 CitationKell, Good Sports, 46–7.
19 The Courier Mail, 4 December 2007.
20 Kell, Good Sports, 49.
21 Kell, Good Sports, 49
22 The Sydney Morning Herald, 12–13 December 2009.
23 Tatz, Aborigines in Sport, 5.
24 Warren, Sheilas, Wogs and Poofters, Citation2006, xxi.
25 Adair and Tatz, ‘Darkness and a Little Light’, 3.
26 The Sun Herald, 28 June, 2009.
27 Adair and Tatz, ‘Darkness and a Little Light’, 6.
28 Newcastle Morning Herald, 9 October 1999.
29 Newcastle Morning Herald, 16 June 2010.
30 Read, Charles Perkins, 81.
31 See, for example, CitationHallinan and Judd, ‘“Blackfellas” Basketball’; Citation‘Race Relations, Indigenous Australia’; CitationMaynard, Aboriginal Stars of the Turf; Citation‘Sporting Walkabout’; Citation‘Football Barriers’.
32 Newcastle Morning Herald, 14 June 2010, 1–2.
33 Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2010.
34 Daily Telegraph, 15 June 2010.
35 The Weekend Australian, 9–10 October 2010.
36 The Weekend Australian, 9–10 October 2010
37 The Weekend Australian, 9–10 October 2010
38 The Weekend Australian, 9–10 October 2010
39 The Sydney Morning Herald, 12–13 December 2009.
