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          By lauredhelon •

          A Friday Hoyden for you: sporting legend Nova Peris, also known as Nova Peris-Kneebone, also known by her current married name, Nova Batman.

          Nova Peris Kneebone was born in Darwin 1971, a member of a family who are traditional owners in the Coburg Peninsula area.

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          6. Her first memory is of Cyclone Tracy. Half her house blew away on the Christmas before she turned four.

          On Enough Rope, Nova discussed her grandmother’s experience of abduction and slavery:

          She was two years old.

          Her mother was a full-blooded Aboriginal. Her father was a white Irishman. And she never knew her father.

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          And back in those days, the Native Affairs Department, like in the ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’, they took half-caste children off their full-blooded mothers. So for the first two years of her life, when the police and Native Affairs were coming around, her mother would rub charcoal on her to make her skin look blacker.

          And then one day