As if the national preoccupation with footbrawl & thugby wasn't enough, it appears we've discovered another totally pointless time-wasting pursuit. Now we have media attention devoted to prima-donna mummys boys throwing tantrums in preference to items of real significance. One could be forgiven for thinking the life and times of our elected representatives & the forthcoming federal election would take precedence over sporting trivia.

My dog's 6 yrs old now and when I first bought him was trying to think of a not too common name, we happened to have a coffee tin with a pic of an African ( i presume) sunset and the brand was Jambo, am I racist? , I never actually connect it with anything other than my dog which is, black'n'brindle

Belly>> SOG! no you are unfairly charged as a supporter of a pedophile and as a racist.<<
Thanks my china.

Rainier if I offended you I do apologize unreservedly. I doesn’t matter how I empathize with the first Aussies, I can never actually feel their displacement because I am Anglo….Celt actually….same thing really in this discussion.

As I watched the face of Australia change over the past 50 years, primarily due to migration, I often thought of the first Australians and how they were not only displaced, but disenfranchised from their culture and religion. But that is now just a page in time nestled amongst the other atrocities that regularly appear in man’s history.

What I am meaning is that the first Aussies history is not unique, excepting the fact that they were a Stone Age people thrown into modernity, so they were particularly fragile and vulnerable, those people have gone, we killed them off and bred them out. Their varying degrees of descendants over the past 30 years have quite rightly enjoyed positive discrimination and ongoing government financial support, but it was rorted.

When the support was administered by whites, they stole from it. When the support was administered by the blacks, they stole from it….how do the REAL people ever win? I am not a racist Rainier my respected cobber , but if I criticize some first Aussies descendants, you can bet some black person has seen the duplicity of their actions first.

'Evening to you CSTEELE...

True, perhaps Adam Goode wasn't aware of this lasses age. However, I contend he should've simply let this imprudent remark, albeit apparently hurtful, simply 'roll off him' as he entered the chute.

By all accounts he's a very good Aussie Rules player, and is often lauded as such. He's also recognised personally, as being, both a 'good bloke' and endowed with modest, controlled habits when he's out and about with his team mates, unlike some other players of this, and other codes.

Therefore, surely a man with his obvious personal qualities, and social maturity, totally ignore this injudicious remark, and continue on to his dressing room ?

I've got to again say, the number of times my colleagues and I, have had to endure:- insults and all manner of disparaging remarks, foul language and yes, racist and chauvinistic abuse - both in and out of uniform - I reckon I could author a thousand page Lexicon of words of 'vilification', and still not advance further than the letter 'A' ?

But you know what ? Very soon you quickly realise it simply doesn't matter. Quite often you'll hear a word or remark that will actually make you smile, even laugh. And should your mirth be observed by the individual from who's mouth it originally came - they'll often appear to be ready to 'blow a valve' with sheer unmitigated rage ! That will often prompt you and your colleagues to laugh even more !

Csteele>> For Christ's sake what mean-spirited, ugly, arrogant part of you let you think that would be okay? That is just plain ignorant, reprobate behaviour one would have hoped we had gotten past.<<

Cs, as always sledgehammer direct.
Consider this Cs, the lyric was put in because I see no difference between first Aussie descendants and those of us who came later. Given that, if it is not insulting to me then it is not insulting to them. It is a piece of colloquial history, many first Aussies were stockmen, some worked for stockmen, some worked for themselves. How is that inflammatory unless you’re a protagonist pushing an agenda?

Present day descendants are as far removed from the time portrayed in that lyric as I am to the troubles in Ireland early last century.

Cs>> As for the rest of you not a peep in protest.<<

Nah your right, it’s just you sport. Are you a lawyer Cs? All they do is escalate, just like your energetic good self, to be sure, squared.

Saussie,

From memory, I think that 'Jambo' may be Swahili for 'hello', at least with tourists. I don't think it is supposed to be offensive in any way. Wasn't it the title of a film in the seventies ?

Cheers,

Joe