Adam Goodes has been booed for 17 weeks
Eddie McGuire looking for Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes's press conference: 'it's not her fault'
Andrew Demetriou: 'it's very un-Eddie, I know Eddie.'
Adam Goodes named Australian of the Year
Black and white photograph of Aboriginal men in chains and neck braces
Goodes: 'it takes courage to tell the truth...[and] to face up to our past.'
Bolt: 'I don't believe in any token movement that is the start of dividing us by race.'
Goodes: 'sometimes [booing is] a mark of respect.'
Jack Charles: 'Adam Goodes is not being too sensitive...'
Eddie McGuire and Dermott Brereton: war dance from another time [and unacceptable]
Bolt: Goodes shook his spear, now he should offer his hand
Charlie Pickering makes fun of Eddie McGuire
Waleed Aly: 'Australia is generally a very tolerant society, until...'
Teammate Lewis Jetta's 'war dance'
'Only Adam Goodes can stop the booing'
Gillon McLachlan, AFL CEO: is this racism?
Mark Robinson: 'I know knuckleheads more than you...'
Stan Grant: 'I don't think anyone should be silenced from this debate...'
Sam Newman's advice for Goodes in response to the 'hysteria'
Marngrook = an Aboriginal game upon which Aussie Rules is based
Stan Grant: 'What do we hear? We don't hear just a 'boo', we hear the howls of humiliation...'
Sam Newman: 'what right have you got to say I'm a racist if I boo?'
The end of Goodes's AFL career
Adam Goodes is a retired Aboriginal AFL player who played for the Sydney Swans.
Goodes knows that he is from a minority culture which, historically, did not hold the balance of power in our society.
Goodes’s identity continues to be formed in this context.
The lack of respect for a person’s human value can manifest in thoughts, words and actions.
In some situations, a failure to act can also result in disrespect.
Disrespect may also emanate from ignorance.
Social approval and disapproval of a person's actions is usually based upon well-established ideas or beliefs.
Those who challenge such well-established ideas or beliefs often suffer social disapproval.
A person suffering social disapproval has two main choices: a) to conform to social expectations; or b) to continue to challenge them.
The Final Quarter depicts a range of viewpoints on the issue of racism in Australia.
The key groups of people include a) Aboriginal Australians; b) White, middle-aged media commentators; c) Younger, white media commentators; d) The ‘educated’; and e) Mainstream society.
It is possible for all key groups to legitimately hold their views, but this challenges society to work together to resolve differences.Introspection is the examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings.
Introspection is vital to self-respect, and helps us understand our reactions to the world around us.
Importantly, we gain a better sense of whether or not our viewpoints are respectful in their diversity.
The Catholic examination of conscience is a process of introspection that has developed over two thousand years.
The questions we ask ourselves in the examination of conscience help us understand whether or not we have maintained our good relationship with God.
Those questions usually consider the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Precepts of the Church.
Australian Identity began with the first human inhabitants over 40,000 years ago
(ab origine = Lat. ‘from the beginning).
It continued as a collection of British colonies from the landing of the First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
Since the White Australia Policy was relaxed and then abolished in the early 1970s, there have been increasingly diverse waves of migration from Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Such a diverse population is healthier and more effective as a unified whole, than as a nation divided into enclaves (closed-off groups).
Racism includes discriminatory words, actions and omissions which position others as inferiors.
Racism ‘elicits hatred and distrust and precludes any attempt to understand its victims’ (Britannica Online, 2022).
Because racism usually begins with words, introspection is good practice in neutralising its danger.
Although Australia is a signatory to various international laws, there is no law made by Australian Parliaments to protect free speech per se, unless that speech is political in nature.
Living as ‘men for others’ requires us to choose to serve the needs of others before we serve our own wants.
There is strength in choosing our responses to setbacks and suffering.
A lack of resilience may result from a person thoughtlessly following their impulses.
To be truly resilient individuals, we must therefore consider, and choose, the right response to any given situation.
Being true to myself is the first step to living well for others.
Acts of heroism start simply: live with purpose, invest in the happiness of others, right your wrongs.
A society full of people who live this way is most likely to be resilient as a group.
From the time of the first British settlement of Australia, various Australian governments have caused violence and disadvantage to Aborigines.
This violence and disadvantage is experienced by Aborigines even today: individually, collectively and in social settings.
In recent history, Australian governments have attempted to address Aboriginal disadvantage and the effects of the violence they have experienced.
The AFL’s Code of Conduct includes Rule 30, a rule created specifically to tackle discrimination by umpires, players and clubs.
The sociologist Max Weber defined ‘power’ as ‘the probability that one actor in a social relationship will carry out his own will against the resistance of others.’
Power exists through wealth, politics and ideas.
Power does not remain static but tends to shift according to changes in the wealth, politics and ideas that a society possesses.
