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Listen to Episode Nine of the Voice of Real Australia podcast: Pale, male and stale: Where are all our Indigenous cricketers?

Tom Melville
Updated January 7 2021 - 4:07pm, first published 5:00am

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have a long and complicated relationship with cricket. A team of First Nations players was the first team ever to tour England in 1868. Indigenous fast bowler Eddie Gilbert got Donald Bradman out for a duck. But policies of Protectionism and assimilation whitewashed the sport, excluding First Nations people in Australia's favourite game.

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Tom Melville

Tom Melville

Host, Voice of Real Australia

Originally from Canberra, Tom Melville worked for the BBC in the UK and as a freelancer in Tunisia before coming to ACM. He is the host of ACM's national podcast Voice of Real Australia. urlgeni.us/VORAPod