{"id":779618,"date":"2026-07-05T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779618\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:08:13","slug":"nrl-naidoc-week-2026-vote-for-the-greatest-indigenous-players-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779618\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL NAIDOC Week 2026: Vote for the greatest Indigenous players of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/92398ad2597b8a8bfd29bf5a071d2c3f4f8744334b70e1ed9f9a703ca421131b.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\"> \u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following content may contain descriptions, images and\/or voices of deceased persons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate 50 years of NAIDOC week, respected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/david-middleton-25i0\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Middleton<\/a> has worked with a panel of experts to short list the top Indigenous rugby league players of the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>There are 40 nominees from the men\u2019s game and 20 from the women\u2019s game, due to its shorter history at an elite level.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u2019re asking you to help our panel of expert judges to rank the top men and women players of the last half century to mark \u201950 Years of Deadly\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll through the profiles of our nominees, then vote in the two forms &#8211; one for the men, one for the women &#8211; below!<\/p>\n<p>Graphics by Polly Hanning and Tara Blancato. Images via NRL, Getty and Nine <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following content may contain descriptions, images and\/or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-779618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779618","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=779618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}