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Australian sports stars are being urged not to stand for the national anthem during this weekend's major rugby league and Aussie Rules finals, as a protest against racism.

The campaign was started by pop culture website Junkee, which called it a show of support for Indigenous Australians.

It has been inspired by American football player Colin Kaepernick.

The player has been refusing to stand for the US anthem before games as a protest against racial inequality.

Paul Gorrie, an Indigenous Australian activist involved in the Junkee campaign, said Kaepernick's protest made him think "why shouldn't we do that here?"




He said the Australian anthem, Advance Australia Fair, "was written in 1878 when land was still being stolen and black people were still being massacred".

It and the recent deaths of Indigenous Australians in police custody were "the impacts of our colonial history and the racism that continues to this day", he said.

"This is a call to action for ALL players to show solidarity by not singing and taking a kneel during the national anthem this weekend at the NRL and AFL grand finals."


"All players Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal should boycott the anthem and start changing Australia's ignorant mentality," he wrote.

Australian sport, in particular Aussie Rules football, has been marred by racism against indigenous players.

Adam Goodes, an Indigenous Australian who played for the Swans and has since retired, was repeatedly booed on the field and last year a rival fan was removed for allegedly telling him to "get back to the zoo".

Australia has also seen heated discussion on whether it should recognise indigenous people in its constitution, repeal clauses that prevent people of a certain race from voting and allow laws to be made based on race.

'Pretty stupid really'

The campaign has generated a mixed response.

Lance "Buddy" Franklin, one of the AFL's most high profile Aboriginal players, said there was "no chance" he would join an anthem boycott.

"First I've heard of it," Franklin said at the AFL grand final parade in Melbourne on Friday.


Personally I think it's pretty stupid really. It's the Australian national anthem, it's a part of our sport, our history."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has described the campaign as "divisive".

"This is a weekend where everyone comes together," he told 3AW Radio.

"The two big codes, the NRL and AFL, work hard to be inclusive and embrace modern Australia and all of its diversity.

"Sport is a really wonderful inclusive institution in Australia. It divides us in the sense that we support different teams, but only in a pretty good-natured way, but above all it pulls us together. That's why we should all sing."

Staying seated

Former rugby league player Joe Williams has been one of the loudest voices backing the campaign.

Williams, who is Aboriginal, has attracted controversy before for remaining seated during the anthem, during an Australia Day ceremony recognising his community work.

"Why should we sing something that doesn't represent us?" he told the BBC.

"Would Malcolm Turnbull feel comfortable if he was made to sing God Save the Queen?"

He dismissed suggestions that the country's biggest sporting events were inappropriate venues to make a political statement.

"You're a black man until the day you die," he said.

"You're only a footballer for a short amount of time."

wait a minute...I thought in an effort to rid the Isles of poofters, the Brits moved them to Australia...

poofter movements, indeed

every damn time you pack of dills come up with some new inanity the halfwits here just have to emulate it.

after 8 years of thing heading down from rationality...we is due for a change

Australian sports stars urged to boycott anthem in AFL and NRL finals

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First the poofter movement now this...every damn time you pack of dills come up with some new inanity the halfwits here just have to emulate it.

Stop it for Christ sake...enough already, cease, desist!

Dang that Hillary [bleep] wants to emulate Aussie gun laws

You goofy bastards are always trying to copy us. It's easy to understand why you want to be like the big boy but funny watching you try.

Yeah...gives us the shits too.

At least in Mad Max the poofters were the villains. Over here they are portrayed as homo superior.

You are correct, next we are going to elect a gender/race confused communist so that we can import a heap of radical muslims to fundamentally change the base Australian identity.

That should top off our gay marriage and pretend blm crowd hits.


Thanks for that.

Seems I read somewhere that your country is doing that as well.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34171024
Seems that stupidity runs rampant in Aussie land too.

Absolutely... and one guess where it all originates.

LMAO, Europe and Britain. OOOPPPs forgot that Aussies are actually British. My Bad.

You are correct, next we are going to elect a gender/race confused communist so that we can import a heap of radical muslims to fundamentally change the base Australian identity.

That should top off our gay marriage and pretend blm crowd hits.


Thanks for that.

Geeez, I tried to be polite, but you infered Americans actually like Obongo, Muzzies and Hillary. That was just mean.

Appoint me emperor and that would all change. Just saying'.

Stop it for Christ sake...enough already, cease, desist!

One word....vegemite.

Then we can troll our worst mental institutions and find a miserable thieving lying sociopath, and give her the reins of the country after the confused one is finished scrapping everything of worth.

Thanks for that too.

LMFAO someone from outside the country get's it and we have 50 million morons that can't put 2 and 2 together.

One word....vegemite.

You are correct, next we are going to elect a gender/race confused communist so that we can import a heap of radical muslims to fundamentally change the base Australian identity.

That should top off our gay marriage and pretend blm crowd hits.


Thanks for that.

We trying to right the wrongs of the last 20 years. Don't follow us right now we're a little lost...

I assure you if you guys come up with some quality inanity, our half wits will emulate it.

Like half-wit hiLIARy wanting 'Australia style gun control'?

LMFAO someone from outside the country get's it and we have 50 million morons that can't put 2 and 2 together.

Electing you Emperor would be almost as silly as electing me to that position would be...the place would be fairly lonely by the time we finished.

Lonely...but polite.

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She is lying, it is not firearm control she wants, it is control.

Now Jim, I gotta wonder. Do you pronounce 'twat' like the Brits do, or more like we Yanks say it - twot?

It isn't really a word you hear used here. About the only time one of us would use it is on one of those web forums where the word we usually do use isn't accepted .

FWIW the bloke fronting the foolishness which started the discussion, a boxer you'd call "has been" but for the fact he never was, has copped nothing but rubbishing and got nowhere with this.The bloke's never had an original idea in his life.



Obviously, no one was Listening to Anthony Mundine

That's Yankee, Dingo Breath.

Apparently you're copying our failing public education system as well.

"I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion.[1] The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787

.every damn time you pack of dills come up with some new inanity the halfwits here just have to emulate it.