'We bear witness to and are deeply sorry for the grief': CA acknowledges evidence Tom Wills may have taken part in massacres of Indigenous people

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Cricket Australia and the AFL acknowledge evidence from an 1895 newspaper interview with Tom Wills suggesting the cricket and Australian rules icon may have taken part in the mass murder of Aboriginal people, and vows to consult with Indigenous communities and experts on the 'next steps'.

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Wills was quoted in the Chicago Tribune story, referring to joining a group of "good men and true" who rode out to find the band of men responsible for the deaths at Cullin-la-ringo.

A statement from Cricket Australia said the organisation was "deeply sorry for the grief this conversation may cause Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people" and said its next steps would be decided by its National Aboriginal Advisory committee. "This story is part of the journey our nation is on, of understanding and reconciling our collective history. We are committed to leaning into the traumas of the past, listening and learning so that we can be better. We commend the researchers for their work and are eager to learn more.

"We will now seek advice from those with knowledge of the available evidence as well as from the communities whose trauma this speaks of."The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria also responded, urging the AFL and Cricket Australia to not "keep trying to whitewash our history"

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Revisionist history is a waste of time. Move on as you intend to continue or end up like the morons in Ireland in continuous conflict. We don't want that in Australia. Stop apologising for the past. Every nation has done horrible things including the indigenous folk.

Maybe CA should've included more indigenous cricketers in the past 100 years

Listen to the words... MAY... of course he did

This country has not learned. What it done to the Aboriginals and the stolen generation, they are now doing to Fathers, taking children from their fathers. The last thing, this country should do, is knock another countries human rights, when we have a bigger issue here.

May have?

CA is apologising for frontier violence which occurred in the late 19 th century in response to frontier violence which occurred in the mid - to - late 19 th century?

Good on them CA, but a pointless apology just the same. It needs to come from the offender, does anyone know a good medium that can contact Will's? 😜

FFS, stop with being so woke ABC, bit like the renaming of Frazer island today in the woke state of Qld

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