Sam Newman tonight

[Twodogs]

If I ran the AFL for a day id get into work at 6.30am. At 6.31 I'd be accessing the AFL life membership data base. By 6.32am the name John Newman would be removed.

[EasternWest]

If I ran the AFL for a day id get into work at 6.30am. At 6.31 I'd be accessing the AFL life membership data base. By 6.32am the name John Newman would be removed.

Vote 1 twodogs.

[bornadog]

If I ran the AFL for a day id get into work at 6.30am. At 6.31 I'd be accessing the AFL life membership data base. By 6.32am the name John Newman would be removed.

Agree, **** the dinosaur, sick of this bloke and his racist views.

[merantau]

What's with all the sunglasses? Every one of those bio photos, they're wearing sunglasses. Some coincidence, that!

[merantau]

I listened to the radio interview that took place a day or so after his call for booing. In it he had the gall to reference the words of Lionel Rose after he defeated Fighting Harada in Tokyo in Feb 1968. Rose was asked what he thought his win meant for Aboriginal Australians (or words to that effect)
He answered by saying something like "I don't go for all this black and white stuff. I did this for all Australians."

However, it is totally misleading to suggest by implication that this was
an endorsement of the status quo. At the time 1968 was a time of worldwide activism and challenge to established authority and institutions around the world, particularly focused on opposition to the Vietnam War and in support of Civil Rights in the United States. The Black Power movement was gathering in the US and I remember well how this was looked on, and reported on, with alarm by politicians and commentators in Australia.

I can only imagine what the reception would have been if Lionel had come out with a political response that decried the lack of human rights of Aboriginal people, their disadvantage in all areas that are essential to living full productive lives, their status as 2nd class citizens in the land of their ancestors. He would have been pilloried. You only have to look at what happened to Adam Goodes and Eddie Betts in more recent times.
For some more context: Queenslander Elley Bennett was Australian Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion in the 1950s. He could not get free access to his winnings. They were under the control of the Queensland Protector of Aborigines. His family fought for years to have this money released after his death. I am not sure of the outcome.

'We are all Australians." is the catchcry you hear a lot. Orwell springs to mind: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

[merantau]

Footnote: The tragic life of Elley Bennett.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/...0702-zu1o.html

[merantau]

For anyone interested in learning about the situation of Aboriginal Australians in rural NSW in 1965 here is a link to the "SAFA Freedom Ride" conducted by students from Sydney Uni and supported by Rev. Ted Noffs of the Wayside Chaple.
In Feb 1967, at LaTrobe Uni, I heard one of the participants, Darce Cassidy, speak about it.

https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/1965-freedom-ride