Banjo, I am not the slightest bit interested in ball games at all. The only exceptions, might be ones where girls wear very short skirts and jump up and down a lot. I would not know who Adam Goodes even was before the current furore erupted.

But I do know that about 25 years ago, a visiting New Zealand cricket team had a captain who's last name was "Hadlee", and everywhere the poor bloke went in Australia, the spectators all chanted 'Hadlee's a wa-anker!" At the time, the news media thought the whole thing was a joke. Light hearted news articles appeared where smirking reporters pretended that the whole thing was not very nice. The queen of 'Sixty Minutes", (Jana Wendt) laughed on screen when she ended a program on the sledging and said "Isn't this terrible?"

Nobody got up on soap boxes screaming "racism!" Hadlee had done nothing to cause the spectators to act that way. It was just something that happened, it became a fashion, and wherever Hadlee played the crowd would begin to chant.

Cut to today, and involve an aboriginal, and everything is judged by a different standard. An aboriginal player over reacts to what is presumably routine racist sledging by a small section of spectators. He then denounces the entire white audience as racists and acts in a threatening way by throwing imaginary spears at them. Then he wonders why the entire crowd throws his own racist hostility back at him.

Ordinary Australian people have long admired aboriginal sporting people since a young girl with the very aboriginal name of Evonne Goolagong went up against the best in tennis and did very well. Same with Cathy Freeman. Some people sneered at Cathy for holding aloft an aboriginal flag after winning at the Olympics. I agree it was the wrong thing to do, but on another level it was absolutely the right thing to do. But if either Evonne or Cathy had sneered att heir own audiences and acted in threatening ways towards them, whatever respect for them their own admirers had would have quickly evaporated.

Some posters have touched on one of the problems about the entire Goodes saga - deference to "the mob".
No matter what a person's expertise in whatever they enjoy doing, there is no reason to let anybody but yourself attempt to denigrate their prowess.
What you do and how you do it is your choice, nobody else's. When you realise that the outcome lies with you, then you can look or listen to the decriers and think: "stuff 'em!"

Ponder, the fact that Goodes has reacted the way he has just proves that the people sledging him were right, he's a gutless show pony.
The reaction to this unimportant event from the so called parasite class, politicians, their journalists and sporting administration has just proven anti establishment Racists such as myself to be correct in our opinions on the whole stupid saga. We win again on both levels.

No matter who you are - I think if you were the one
being consistently targeted at
games for over a year - and were the only one being booed
on the field over and over again and comments like -
"Go back to the zoo!" and references about King Kong
were being made about you in the public arena. It would
have an effect on you. And brushing it aside as just being
"the norm," somehow doesn't wash.

What I don't understand is why don't his team mates simply
stop the game once the booing starts and walk off the field.
Sooner or later if the game is stopped the fans would get
the message that this is unacceptable behaviour.

Jay Of Melbourne [to Fox], "Goodes is being booed because he's perceived to be gutless and to have tickets on himself, there are supposedly over 70 indigenous AFL players and he's the only one who gets this treatment."

Pithy and spot on as usual!

General Comment
The treatment of the child minor by officials and the police, where she was publicly humiliated and summarily frog-marched off for hours of police interrogation without arrest and without a carer adult present was a crystal-clear exhibition of the very powerful influence of multicultural political correctness in this country.

There would be little doubt that the police and officials who indecently and shamefully flouted the rights of a child minor did do while consulting with and taking the direction of higher leadership and authority. Yet to date none of those secretive decision makers has had the decency to come forward to explain or to apologist for the unwarranted and brutal ill-treatment and very casual attitude to the child's rights and wellbeing.

People around the world wonder how officialdom, police and shamefully the Labor politicians themselves could turn a blind eye to the child sex trafficking in Rotherham and other centres in the UK. While the dismissive and shabby treatment of the child minor pointed out by AFL heavyweight Adam Goodes for public humiliation and official action was far lesser than the thousands of child sex rapes in the UK, there was that similar entrenched extreme political correctness that was at work in both circumstances.

Unlike the UK offences, the disgusting treatment of the Australian child minor, the violation of her rights, was committed in front of TV cameras and a very large crowd. Then the media and Left commentariat proceeded to denounce her after and to coldly and deliberately re-victimise her, all for sensationalism to draw a larger audience for advertisers.

tbc..

contd..

Imagine if the roles were reversed and it was a child of one of the legitimised 'victim' groups in Australia. The child minor at the AFL said she didn't realise the meaning that would be taken by the 'gutted'(!) Goodes. However there was no such misunderstanding of the 'White C(bleep)' that magistrates have excused indigenous for hurling at police and the public generally.

Of course there are many decent people who so not accept the treatment of that child minor and would like a judicial inquiry at minimum into it. It is outrageous that even now those senior decision-makers behind the scenes who directed and supported that action should be identified and held accountable for their actions.

What is preventing their identification, particularly the politicians and specifically the minister responsible for police who almost certainly would have been advised of the incident and progress as it happened?

Of course the incident, the rough justice,the aftermath and the cover-up will continue to rankle many, not just some, Australians. It is unfinished business. It is simply NOT GOOD enough.