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Remembering Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose

Remembering Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose - Fifty years ago today, Lionel Rose defeated Fighting Harada in Tokyo to become Australia's first Aboriginal world champion. For a time in 1968 and 1969, he was the most famous Indigenous person in Australia , and perhaps the most famous Australian athlete in the world. It's hard to overstate the impact ...