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But to those who prefer the Bicentennial approach to Australia Day ... There are warriors among our Aboriginal activists — and good on them — who ...

XAVIER Clarke says many Australians will have “a lot to answer for” if fellow Aboriginal AFL footballer and Sydney Swans great Adam Goodes' career ...

"This is a dangerous time for Australia and if we don't deal with this matter… I'm afraid how Aboriginal people will react to this if the requirement is ...

What this is really about is that Goodes isn't the Aboriginal man mainstream Australia want an Aboriginal man to be. He challenges people to confront ...

Sydney Morning Herald
View from the Street: White people lecture indigenous Australian on racism, again
Sydney Morning Herald
You do know which country Australian Aboriginal people come from, right? McMaster subsequent deleted his tweet, though, because he's definitely not a sook. Or, for that matter, a bit of an idiot. Something about apples and the trees from whence they fall…
Time for Tony Abbott to stand up to haters over Adam GoodesThe Australian Financial Review

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Sydney Morning Herald
View from the Street: White people lecture indigenous Australian on racism, again
Sydney Morning Herald
You do know which country Australian Aboriginal people come from, right? McMaster subsequent deleted his tweet, though, because he's definitely not a sook. Or, for that matter, a bit of an idiot. Something about apples and the trees from whence they fall…

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The booing of Aboriginal footballer Adam Goodes is a terrible thing for Australia, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has said. Goodes, who is a ...

Lewis was Aboriginal, a Yamatji man, with a background not typical for his time, ... the offensiveness of what was actually being said to Aboriginal players. ... he then turned into a grievance pulpit to bag Australia as a racist nation.".

SBS
Booing of aboriginal athlete sparks heated race debate in Australia
SBS
Australia rarely talks publicly about the condition of its roughly 700,000 indigenous citizens, who track near the bottom of its 23 million citizens in almost every economic and social indicator. Aborigines are 12 times more likely than other ...
I can tell you how Adam Goodes feels. Every Indigenous person has felt itThe Guardian
Booing of indigenous AFL player 'damaging' Australia societyYahoo News
Adam Goodes booed because he speaks out for Indigenous people, Senator Nova ...ABC Online
Mashable -The Age -BBC News
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SBS
Booing of aboriginal athlete sparks heated race debate in Australia
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"What we're talking about is a really complex issue that's currently sitting in the sports area and involves Adam, but I think it's something that constantly is part of Australia, and disappointingly so." Aboriginal sports stars from other football ...
Be it racist or otherwise, booing has aboriginal Australian football star ...The Province
AFL taunts at Adam Goodes reignite racism rowBBC News
Adam Goodes booed because he speaks out for Indigenous people, Senator Nova ...ABC Online
The Age -The Daily Telegraph
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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 ...