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• A TRIBUTE to prolific and award-winning Australian music legends Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter was unveiled at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy, Melbourne, on Saturday. A large crowd gathered for the unveiling of the new artwork, which is a tribute to the song-writing couple.
• FORMER police constable Zachary Rolfe’s “fascination with violence” barely featured in his criminal trial but during Australia’s longest-running coronial inquest his actions have been characterised as racist. Full story, page 5.
PLUS – Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award winners – page 33.
In SPORT:
• FANS of Indigenous sport and sportspeople can celebrate in Meanjin-Brisbane next year when the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards heads north. Nathan Lovett-Murray from the Indigenous Sports Network, the team behind the return of the awards after a 20- year hiatus, confirmed the move at the 2024 awards ceremony at the MCG last week.
• MIA King is a premiership player after North Melbourne defeated Brisbane by 30-points in the 2024 AFLW grand final at Princes Park in Melbourne on Saturday. King was one of four Aboriginal women in Saturday’s grand final.
• ABORIGINAL fast- bowlers Scott Boland and Brendan Doggett are vying for a spot in the Australian XI Test cricket team in the series against India. Boland is the man most likely to replace the injured Josh Hazlewood in Adelaide for the day-night Test.
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