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Bernie grew up in a large Indigenous community in Sydney where he played games of modified rugby league from as young as he could remember, after which he progressed to playing organized footy in two local, junior rugby league clubs. He loved sport in general and rugby league in particular, with his talent in, and commitment to, it earning him a place in a specialist sports high school (secondary) in his local area. He grew up in a socio-cultural environment that he described as being a ‘big rugby league community’ in which all sport was valued with rugby league being the dominant practice. Within this environment, where his father played rugby league, sport was his life and his focus was rugby league:
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Light, R., Evans, J.R. (2018). 10 Bernie: ‘I Knew What I Wanted and I Was Willing to Do Anything to Get It’. In: Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66450-7_12
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