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Aboriginals Turned Away From Australian Football Match

A ticket seller thought someone told her not to sell tickets to tickets to any more Aboriginal people at a match to celebrate them.

The Adelaide Oval's box office in Australia has issued an apology after a ticket seller misunderstood her manager and thought she was told not to sell any more tickets for a football match to Aboriginal people, according to the BBC. The ticket seller claimed she had to tell people the game was sold out even though it was not. The police had reportedly informed the stadium that, due to security concerns, they were not to sell tickets to anyone for a one-hour window to ease pressure inside the stadium. The seller said that her manager “turned around and told everyone in the box office we’d been told not to sell tickets to any more Aboriginal people.” A spokesman for the sporting association that manages ticket sales said, “The ticket office staff followed the instructions of police and security and did not sell tickets to anyone for around an hour while the police and security managed the situation.” A spokeswoman for South Australia Police told the BBC they had come to the stadium to answer a “request for assistance where some patrons attempting to enter Adelaide Oval, or purchase tickets to enter the ground, were clearly intoxicated.” But they denied telling anyone not to sell tickets to people. “Police at no time made any direction to the ticket sales employees about the sale of tickets.”