Lionel Rose ✓

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Australian boxer (1948–2011)

About Lionel Rose

Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title. He later became the first Indigenous Australian to be named Australian of the Year.

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The massacre of the innocents

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I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited… Aboriginal
I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to… Aboriginal

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