It is obviously time that we as a Nation need to have an Australia wide competition to create a red blooded Aussi Challenge Corroborree "Haka" to really put the Kiwis and those other Pacific Nations with similar challenge dances off their footie game.
It would be an exciting spectacle before the game for us too and a lot better than swearing at them .
Perhaps the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation , Mal Brough and the sports keen PM John Howard could sponsor it .

Not a bad thought Kartya Jim.. perhaps it could include a hybrid of various cultural gestures which all mean 'up yours' kind of thing. (in a friendly spirit of course)

but I can't imagine white fella's prancing around with ochre and mud on them prior to a footy game :) but who knows... stranger things have happened.

Back in the days when Paul Hogan was still painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there was a very Australian comedian/actor called Sid James, who was one of the mainstays of the British comedy films, the "Carry On" series.

In Carry On Up The Khyber [notice the terrible rhyming slang double entendre re the Khyber Pass?] a Scottish Regiment, the Third Foot and Mouth, had the unenviable task of repelling a much larger force of wild tribesmen [a bit like the Kiwis]. They successfully did this by turning their backs and lifting their kilts. And we all know what a true Scotsman wears under his kilt, don't we?

OK, it's just a suggestion---

Ok Rex, a lighter note, we were in the grand final of our local footie [aussi rules]this year after a long finals drought .
It was suggested to me by a younger senior netballer that should we be losing, their team could position themselves behind the point posts, turn around and give their short skirts a flick just as the opposition was attempting to kick a a goal.I was shocked and taken aback !
WE were behind ,they wussed out and damn,once again we lost !

BUT Back to the discussion ,tonight we will see thousands of WHITE and Mauri ALL BLACK supporters get their blood up by singing in their Indigenous language, the "anthems" of New Zealand .

Now the thing that would slay them all in aisles is----when the Kiwis start their haka, the Ozzies take out knitting needles and ,while watching , knit stolidly.
I do believe it would create a real diversion.

Kartiya Jim.. do I read you right in understanding that you are aboriginal ?

We have quite a good atmosphere in this thread.. no dissenters yet!
A good example of our future as Aussies eh :)