Australian Football League (AFL)

Goodes saga lays bare systemic racism

Australia, the 鈥渟porting nation鈥, has a problem. The idea of Australia as the 鈥渇air-go鈥 country must be laid to rest as a myth. Australia is a racist nation that has shown that it will never tolerate an Aboriginal person 鈥済etting above themselves鈥. The Adam Goodes saga 鈥 in which the Sydney Swans superstar has faced repeated booing from AFL crowds ever since he performed a traditional Indigenous war dance to celebrate a goal during the AFL's Indigenous round in May 鈥 has laid bare the racism for all to see.

Collective action needed to fight AFL racism

There has been a wave of support for famous Sydney Swans footballer Adam Goodes in the face of the racist torrent that has been directed at him. At the same time as people are expressing their solidarity with Goodes, right-wing commentators such as Andrew Bolt, Miranda Devine and Alan Jones are doing their best to stoke the racism, by denying that Goodes has been subjected to racist booing.