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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Months of relentless booing of Aboriginal football great and anti-racism campaigner Adam Goodes has ignited an uncomfortable ...

"I've been listening to what the Australian people are saying," she ... You do know which country Australian Aboriginal people come from, right?

Sydney Morning Herald
NRL stars to begin Indigenous round celebrations early in support of Adam Goodes
Sydney Morning Herald
"Hopefully this week we will see the positive in supporting our culture because the sad fact is that Aboriginals in Australia need to be supported because of where our people are. We need help. We need help to get our people off drugs, we need help for ...

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"Hopefully this week we will see the positive in supporting our culture because the sad fact is that Aboriginals in Australia need to be supported ...

This is laying Australia bare for the world to see. ... To the AFL and to Aboriginal footballers, I think also you could back off a little bit ... don't re-enact ...

As it involved an issue that related to the Australian Aboriginal community I chose to stay on the sidelines as there are people in that community who ...

The “no-balling” by Australian cricket crowds of Muttiah Muralitharan was ... Aboriginal people is a serious, endemic problem in Australian society.

He was for me one of the Aboriginal sportspeople who had played a ... Aboriginal excellence in sport is inextricably linked in my mind to Australia's ...

Aboriginal excellence in sport is inextricably linked in my mind to Australia's journey towards reconciliation, the acknowledgement of the continuing ...

Why should he Goodes be immune from criticism, just because he is Aboriginal? Nobody is booing the other 70 indigenous players in the AFL, it's just ...

The Guardian
I can tell you how Adam Goodes feels. Every Indigenous person has felt it
The Guardian
Maybe my position of relative success and privilege today should have healed deep scars of racism and the pain of growing up Indigenous in Australia. The same could be said of Adam. And perhaps that is right. But this is how Australia makes us feel.
Adam Goodes booed because he speaks out for Indigenous people, Senator Nova ...ABC Online
Racists slammed after crowd boos Australian Indigenous footballerMashable
AFL taunts at Adam Goodes reignite racism rowBBC News
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AFL great Adam Goodes is being booed across Australia. ... As the only Indigenous kid, the only Aboriginal person my school mates had met, I wanted ...

It began 15 years ago with independent money raised by Aboriginal people, and was the first bush dialysis service in the country. Indigenous people ...

And that is what most scares Australia, that you will hold them, us, ... Further, Aboriginal Australians are, in a very real sense, still 'wogs' in their own ...

The Australian Financial Review
Tarnanthi Aboriginal art festival in Adelaide brings indigenous artists to town
The Australian Financial Review
An initiative of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarnanthi will be the most ambitious showing of indigenous art in the gallery's 134-year history. While the gallery will be its focal point, the festival will be spread across 21 South Australian ...

A reference to Australia Day being called “invasion day” by some ... Goodes said it was OK for Aboriginal people to feel “sad” about their history, “in the ...

There are a majority of loud and vocal Australians who don't like what ... Talking about the realities faced by Aboriginal Australians makes some ...

“I ask every Australian to think about what the constitution exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians — to see our vast and ...

Thurston and Inglis are planning on performing a traditional Aboriginal war dance if they score a try on the weekend in a show of solidarity.

Jonathan Thurston plans to perform aboriginal dance as NRL stars rally ... that Cairns had been required to attend and his client was in Australia.