Controversial AFL personality Sam Newman has claimed former Sydney Swans legend Adam Goodes was never booed because of his skin colour or Indigenous heritage.
The comments came as Newman continued to defend his criticism of the Indigenous Welcome to Country, in which called on the public to boo or slow clap when the introduction is read out.
“Adam Goodes was booed because he pretended to throw a spear at the Carlton cheer squad after the Swans were beating them by 10 goals at half-time and wondered why people, people get booed on the football field, not because of their skin colour, but because of things they do,” Newman said. The year after the infamous match with Carlton Goodes scored a goal against the same side and celebrated by charging at a section of the crowd in a stirring war cry dance which ended by imitating the throwing of a spear.
"If we are at all serious about the Welcome to Country and the nonsense that has suddenly taken over in the last 20 years from a completely harmless introduction by Ernie Dingo some years ago and people have latched onto it," he said on the You Cannot Be Serious podcast. "I am not sure why he is in the news. He is irrelevant to any debate of the time," she told Nine’s Today Show.
Newman insisted his comments meant no harm to Indigenous people or their culture but were about people becoming tired of the ceremonies.
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