After a smattering of boos, hisses and snorts at the anti-Goodes comments in the film by media figures Eddie McGuire, Sam Newman, Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine among the largely respectful audience, there was a standing ovation for director Ian Darling and his filmmaking team on all three levels of the State Theatre on Friday night.
Cherrie Frail-Green, from the Central Coast, said the film made her feel "angry, frustrated, but with hope”. "When a story can reveal a whole society's biases - or in this case prejudices - then it's a powerful story and that's what Ian has done," he said. The head of Indigenous Pathways at the National Rugby League, former player Dean Widders, said it was sad to watch what a legendary athlete went through."I hope the rest of Australia makes his suffering worthwhile," he said. "It's an opportunity for us now to continue discussions and to keep working hard ...
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Wow. They made a film. Woop Di do
There was no racism towards Goods, like most Aboriginals, he thrives on pretending to be a victim.
...great players transcend their temporal confine's to become timeless exemplars, bastions and sentinels of character and action that we all aspire to emulate...
The foreign white European-Anglo-Christian ruling class of Australia since their illegal & deadly first contact with guns are not going to give up their privilege easily. We can only hope of them becoming extinct from the blessing of our Aborignal sun with colour & skin cancers!
Australia is a racist country...
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