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Baghdad Bob
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Why the AFL has come out and supported the Yes vote for the Voice has baffled me. As the NRL, Rugby, Netball , Cricket Australia and Tennis Australia have also come out I suppose they did not want to one out.
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Baghdad Bob
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Well it has only taken just over 3 weeks for my reporting of the above to hit the press. In today's Australian there is an article under the following heading. The AFL has replaced portraits of its past presidents with Indigenous art The
boardroom at Melbourne’s AFL House has always been an unremarkable, featureless
space. Its few striking elements have included a dated carpet, a considerable
oak table, and a gallery of austere-looking men whose imposing portraits lined
an entire wall.
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paintings of past presidents have always resided in the boardroom, per
convention, and depicted the code’s venerated patriarchs, from former
chairman Mike Fitzpatrick to the late Ron Evans and
SirKenneth Luke, among others. Lately
these artworks have become a delicate matter for the AFL, perhaps even a
low-key source of discomfort. The subjects are all male, and they are all
white. We hear at least one administrator remarked upon the lack of diversity
on display and, as everyone knows, that’s a crime of the deepest dye for any
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Tlazolteotl
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Yeah, who cares.
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Baghdad Bob
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The families of those founder fathers of AFL and past presidents, whose achievements have been cast aside , to make way for a few "dot" aboriginal drawings as a form of tokenism by the AFL.
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TJMitchell
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You have a thing about paintings being taken down don't you BB?
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Time is a flat circle
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Baghdad Bob
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Not really, I have a few of my own on our walls at home that have been up for 30 years . .couple of Pro Hart's, couple of Albert Tucker's and couple of Hugh Sawrey's.. BTW all are Australian artists and they have all gone to God, so they are not painting anymore.
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