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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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Originally posted by Baghdad Bob Baghdad Bob wrote:

Well it has not taken the current woke leadership of the AFL to get on board the Indigenous Voice. In the past week the portraits of the founding fathers of Australian rules together with all previous AFL CEOs have been removed  from the boardroom at AFL house and replaced, wait for this, with art work of indigenous artists, as a gesture to support the Voice. 
To replace Tom Wills, the most significant founding father, with some dotted indigenous artwork , is an absolute joke.
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.

These 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 sporting code.



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Yeah, who cares.Sleepy
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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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You have a thing about paintings being taken down don't you BB? LOL
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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.Smile
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