Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, and cultural knowledge can all be invisible. This exhibition brings them to the light.
For the first time in its 99 year-history, the Archibald Prize has been won by an Indigenous painter. The Wynne and Sulman Prize winners also signal a time of change.
Most years, the Archibald exhibition is worth viewing as an amusing exercise in social history. This year it is worth seeing for the art.
Despite case after case of systemic racism against Indigenous people, the AFL has not been able to rid itself of a problem that has caused so much grief to so many.
Consciousness-raising is a laudable goal for the AFL, but on race and gender issues, it needs to lead to clear actions, not just words.
A new film chronicling the impact of racism on Indigenous football star Adam Goodes is both a damning and hopeful portrait of contemporary Australia.
Barracking has been a colourful and controversial part of Australian Rules football since the game’s inception. Now, the AFL is trying to maintain order – and fans are irate.
New research has found that racial vilification is a common occurrence in junior sport in Australia – and is rarely punished when it happens.
Between the 1830s and the 1850s, hundreds of Indigenous warriors and dozens of British settlers were killed across south-east Australia. Echoes of that conflict recur in Aussie rules.
Ms Dhu’s is not the first report into mistreatment of an Aboriginal person in custody or a medical setting, nor is it likely to be the last.
For Indigenous people, refusal is a powerful act of sovereignty. In Grand Final week, it’s timely to reflect on Adam Goodes’ refusal to accept racism in football or an official send off when he retired - and the repercussions of his stance, a year on.
Sport can be a driver for change; it can make a difference in people’s lives and unify communities, particularly around national successes. But it can also create tensions and cause conflict.
Public discourse and commentary are generally blind to the massive contribution that local sport contributes to social connectedness.
Until we see a marked change in the stories that are told, together with a shift from inclusion to social justice, the national story of Australian sport will remain very, very white.
Sports weekends are where family connections are sustained, and culture is infused into Australian football games played on country.
The choice of Adam Goodes as David Jones ambassador is on the pulse, but the concept of a “Face of” is outdated.
If we can do anything that is remotely respectful it is to see Adam Goodes’ class not just as an Aboriginal or a man, but as an Australian.
For at least some Australians, it seems that Indigenous culture is acceptable only as an object of consumption for tourists visiting the remote north.
There are no examples of evidence being put forward by race theorists that a race other than the one they belong to is superior. That’s worth bearing in mind when it comes to ‘understanding’ racists.
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, GNIBI College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
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Research Affiliate, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Sport History, Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland
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Geoff Woolcock is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
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DVC Indigenous & Professor of Indigenous Studies, School of Culture and Communition, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Tasmania