Maurice Rioli

Maurice Rioli (1 September 1957 – 25 December 2010) was an Australian rules football player best known for his time spent with the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL/AFL). He originally played for the St Marys Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), and also for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Regarded as one of the greatest players of his era, Rioli was one of the first Indigenous Australian footballers to have a significant impact on Victorian football, and was named in the centre for the Indigenous Team of the Century. A highly skilled and solidly built centreman with exquisite ball-handling skills and lightning reflexes, Rioli was a renowned performer on the big stage.

After retiring from football he became a politician in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, and then worked in Community Services on the Tiwi Islands.

Read more about Maurice Rioli:  Impact in Victoria, Return To South Fremantle and Later Career, Politics and Community Work, Family, Death