The Daily Telegraph 13 September 2009

It is approaching sunset in the red desert, and rowdy, cheeky boys are playing rugby league in the last of the light.

They've kicked off their shoes and are running barefoot on the grass, thick and green and burr-free. A new set of dressing-sheds stands beside the oval.

Their coaches, Darren "Horse'' Whyman and Brendan Adams, bellow instructions, their shadows stretching long across the scrambling, tripping tangle of boys.

They are all Aboriginal, all members of the newly revived Wilcannia Boomerangs, all part of a generation that might, for the first time in a long time, have a brighter future in this far western NSW town.

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