NINE years ago, a despondent Michael Long stepped out to walk to Canberra to talk to a prime minister. As he walked from Melbourne, his thoughts gradually crystallised into the question he would put to John Howard: "Where is the love for my people?"
Long, an AFL champion who did much to drive racism out of football, has now stepped out on a new journey, as a point man in the campaign for the constitutional recognition of Aborigines.
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