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Australia's Indigenous cricketing history explored in new documentary and exhibition We Are One

In 1868 Australia sent the first-ever international sporting team to England to play cricket — and remarkably, it was an all-Indigenous side.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.

In an effort to bring this unique period of Australia's sporting history to new audiences, two Sunshine Coast women have collated the stories of those with connections to the First XI in a documentary and photography exhibition.

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