{"id":45644,"date":"2025-08-05T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45644\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:45:10","slug":"the-descendants-episode-2-the-search-for-the-afls-tom-wills-full-story-podcast-indigenous-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45644\/","title":{"rendered":"The Descendants episode 2: the search for the AFL\u2019s Tom Wills \u2013 Full Story podcast | Indigenous Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some years, there have been suggestions that in the 1850s Tom Wills, Australia\u2019s first sports hero and the founder of the AFL, may have taken part in the massacres of Gayiri people in Central Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a Guardian Australia investigation, Indigenous Affairs reporter Ella Archibald-Binge travels in search of the truth behind the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>In this two part special Full Story, she and Lorena Allam from UTS\u2019s Jumbunna Institute discuss how families on both sides of the conflict are reckoning with the truth of their ancestors\u2019 colonial past<\/p>\n<p>Warning: This episode contains historical records that use racist and offensive language, and descriptions of events that will be distressing to some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some years, there have been suggestions that in the 1850s Tom Wills, Australia\u2019s first sports hero and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-45644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}