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Collingwood’s past has finally caught up with its present – and its president Paul Daley © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Joe Castro/EPA
As gold rush money fuelled the ever-expanding Melbourne of the 1850s, remnants of Wurundjeri people, decimated by disease, starvation and violent dispossession, were still to be found on a vast expanse of woodland and pasture down by the Yarra in Abbotsford.
It was their land. Yet speculator John Dight was permitted to buy sections of it from the colonial government. A few of the traditional owners managed to coexist with Dight’s stock for another 30 or so years until the land was subdivided around a large sporting ground – Victoria Park.
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Eddie McGuire tried to spin the Collingwood racism report, but missed his chance to inspire real change at the club
By ABC National Sport Reporter, David Mark
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Eddie McGuire has come under pressure over his response to the Collingwood racism report.
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And so began one of the most astonishing sport press conferences in living memory.
Who else but Eddie McGuire could try to spin what demonstrably was not a proud day for Collingwood into a positive?
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Eddie McGuire says Collingwood is now committed to changing for the better.
But this was Eddie McGuire; master salesman, king of Melbourne, Eddie Everywhere operating as he has done so many times over his long career as president of the most famous football club in Australia.
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