Indigenous Elder Who Performed AFL Welcome To Country Admits To Partner A 'bad Example' After Viciously Beating His Girlfriend With An 'Aboriginal Tool' During A Drunken Rampage

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Indigenous Elder Who Performed AFL Welcome To Country Admits To Partner A 'bad Example' After Viciously Beating His Girlfriend With An 'Aboriginal Tool' During A Drunken Rampage

An Indigenous elder led a welcome-to-country ceremony at an AFL match just days before pleading guilty to violently attacking his partner with an Aboriginal foraging tool in a fit of alcohol-fueled rage. Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation president and Tangentyere Council director Benedict Stevens was given a six-month suspended sentence in June after hitting his partner on the head at an Alice Springs home in April. While Mr Stevens offered to…