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Hubert Opperman was the greatest Australian endurance cyclist ever and a minister in the Menzies and Holt federal governments. Little known in Australia, he was hugely popular in France and is the only Australian ever to be voted European Sportsman of the Year.
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Imagine an Olympic Games where you could just turn up of your own accord, and go in whatever event you felt like. No need for years of gruelling training; no need to qualify to represent your country. This is how a mild-mannered accountant called Edwin Flack did it, when he competed at the Athens Olympic Games of 1896.
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David Unaipon smiles out at us from the fifty dollar note, immortalised on our currency for his fierce intelligence and achievements. Who was David Unaipon, and why do we still know so little about him?
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In 'Fernando's Ghost', we hear about the extraordinary international career of the Aboriginal rights activist Anthony Martin Fernando, who is slowly emerging from the shadows, 60 years after his death.
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