Peris not the patsy they expect

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:45pm, first published January 26 2013 - 3:00am

Nova Peris is a good woman, a champion athlete and an indigenous person uncontroversially admired by most Australians. Almost all Aboriginal people of higher profile, apart perhaps from a few who, like her, became famous from sporting achievement, have public enemies as well as friends, and critics as well as admirers in Aboriginal communities.

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