AN audacious plan conceived by AFL titan Kevin Sheedy to promote the contribution Indigenous players have made to the game of football has been an unmitigated success.

Since its inception in 2005, the “Dreamtime at the G” match has drawn an average crowd of 70,000 to Australia’s biggest sporting stadium, and it is now inked in yearly as a blockbuster on the AFL fixture.

Fittingly, Sheedy h...