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Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866. This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.
The Aboriginal Sports Foundation was created in 1969, [2] and The National Aboriginal Sports Awards were first given in 1986. [6] At the 1986 National Aborigines' Day, more than 70 members of the Australian Indigenous community had their sporting achievements recognised.
Indigenous people in Australia are both Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.People of South Sea Islander descent may be included by popular culture, although they are the descendants of Pacific Islanders brought to Australia during the 19th century as indentured labour on the Queensland sugar canefields.
Indigenous Australian sportspeople (14 C, 11 P) N. National Dreamtime Awards (4 P) Pages in category "Indigenous Australian sport" The following 23 pages are in this ...
Pages in category "Indigenous Australian Olympians" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 383 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Indigenous sportspeople of the Americas (4 C, 54 P) I. Indigenous Australian sportspeople (14 C, 13 P) M. New Zealand Māori sportspeople (4 C, 128 P) S.
Lists of Indigenous Australians by occupation and/or historical contribution: List of Indigenous Australian historical figures; List of Indigenous Australian musicians; List of Indigenous Australian performing artists; List of Indigenous Australians in politics and public service, education, law and humanities; List of Indigenous Australian ...