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Brumbies First Nations program supporting young Indigenous athletes to pursue rugby careers

Tareq Parter is now playing rugby union after growing up thinking league was his only football option.  (Supplied: Brumbies Digital)

Growing up in Townsville, rugby league was all that Kuku-Yalanji and Kalkadoon man Tareq Parter knew.

He watched his Aboriginal heroes Johnathan Thurston and Greg Inglis play in the National Rugby League on television and hung posters of them on his wall.

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