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Black Pearls

The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame
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Black Pearls honours 269 Aboriginal and Islander sports legends from Australia, spanning 150 years and 36 sports. Featuring icons like Evonne Goolagong, Cathy Freeman, and Lionel Rose, this third edition showcases Olympic champions, football giants, boxing legends, and more. Beyond sporting achievements, it explores themes of resilience, inclusion, and overcoming discrimination in Australian sport history.
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Essential reading for sports enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in Indigenous Australian culture and history.

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Spanning thirty six sports across a period of 150 years, Black Pearls presents some of our Olympic heroes, superb sportswomen, football giants, boxing legends, lightning sprinters, and more - from darts champions to world class weightlifters and woodchoppers.

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Evonne Goolagong, Cathy Freeman, Nova Peris, Lionel Rose, Artie Beetson, Polly Farmer, are just a few of our Australian sporting heroes who, since the mid-1880s, have helped shape Australia's identity as a great sporting nation. They, along with 269 other sporting greats, are showcased here in this third edition of the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame.

Spanning thirty-six sports across a period of 150 years, Black Pearls presents some of our Olympic heroes, superb sportswomen, football giants, boxing legends, lightning sprinters, and more - from darts champions to world-class weightlifters and woodchoppers.

Black Pearls is, however, more than a sports book. It reveals a history of inclusion and exclusion, about Aboriginal determination in the face of enormous obstacles, and resilience in overcoming remoteness, discriminatory laws, incarceration on isolated reserves, and opponents in a variety of sports arenas.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925302950

Publisher: ATF Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: ATF Press

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 205.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1300g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Professor Colin Tatz AO researches, teaches and writes in the fields of Aboriginal affairs, comparative race politics, Holocaust and genocide, Jewish studies, migration, suicide, and sports history. In 1964 he founded and was the initial director of what is now the Monash Indigenous Centre. He has held chairs of Politics at the University of New England and at Macquarie University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. He is the founding director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sydney. Paul Tatz was born in South Africa and raised in Australia where he studied as a professional photographer at the Sydney Black Diamonds (Allen & Unwin, 1996) and Black Gold: The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame (Aboriginal Studies Press).

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