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-Every time I got the ball, they booed. Anything that has been said about my Aboriginality, I'm going to call it out. -He was "Adam Goodes, the angry Aborigine." -People are not booing you because you're an Aboriginal. They're booing you because you're acting like a jerk. -"Mate, they're booing him because he's Black."

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-Welcome to sunny Australia Day. -Thousands of proud Aussies have boarded boats and packed the foreshore, celebrating on and around Sydney Harbor.

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-It's pretty good to be an Australian. -Happy Australia Day! -Whoo-hoo! -You know what? We're very lucky to live in this country. -More than 60,000 people have celebrated here today. -It's peaceful. It's prosperous. It's tolerant. It's multicultural. This is a fantastic place! -The most dedicated among us have shown plenty of pride as we celebrate our history, our culture, and our journey as a nation. -This is the day that we celebrate the birth of Australia, as you know it now.

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But, to the Indigenous community, that's the saddest day for our culture. -

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Always was, always will be! -Aboriginal land! -Always was, always will be! -Aboriginal land! -Dates mark history, but dates don't tell us, necessarily, about history. -That's up to you and I. It's up to every single human being. We need to put our focus on uniting. On caring and sharing for one another. That means we join hands together. Thank you.

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-Crazy turnout today. I think people are getting more and more aware of what this day actually means to Indigenous people and there is a need for change in this country and it starts with a showing like it is today. -How are you doing, brother?

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-Good. -You're an inspiration to all Australians. -Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Ever since what happened when I was playing footy, I've only ever felt love from community, love from people. It's nice to be able to shake the hands, have some photos, and, you know, share the love back, which is good. Growing up, I knew I was different. I was darker. I actually didn't know what it meant to be an Indigenous person. I did see myself just like everybody else. It wasn't until high school where bullies would call me names, that I then went home and asked my mum, "What does that mean, Mum?" Then Mum goes, "Well, you're Aboriginal. They're trying to tease you. What I want you to do is, whenever they do that, you just keep walking away." My mum is full-blood Indigenous. My dad is Irish Scottish, but I've never really been seen as that white person. They've always just seen me as, "You're that Black kid." -It's a struggle, when you're young, to be different. I remember, when I was a boy, sitting in a bath and trying to rub the color off my skin. I found out later that's a really common experience amongst a lot of Aboriginal kids, who just want to fit in. -We didn't have much, as a family. Mum was on her own a lot of the time. When I look back, you realize how tough Mum did do it, with three boys, on her own. We were very energetic young boys, too, so, you know. Mum was strict. That was for sure. She had to be. -Our life wasn't the Dreamtime. It wasn't this idea of some pristine Aboriginal existence. I think the thing that we have most in common, Adam and I, was that we were having to make our way in the world based on what we could bring to it. -I was such a shy, quiet kid growing up, who really didn't have a voice, that would take a long time to make friends and then, before too long, we'd move away. But one thing that helped us assimilate was our love for sports. My brothers and I, that was the way that we broke down those barriers every time we moved. -Sport, in this country, really goes to the heart of what the country is, how the country sees itself.

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That, here in Australia, the local homegrown sport of Aussie Rules, or AFL, it's the thread that binds the nation.

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-It's a way of life. It's guttural. It's deep. It's handed down from generation to generation, There is a tribal nature to it. -Oh. -

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Oh. -It's said that the game that we now play was actually an Indigenous game called Marngrook. It's something that my ancestors have played for thousands and thousands of years. -

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-It's a part of us, just as much as we're a part of it. I compare it to the land, where they say, "We don't own the land. The land owns us." And, for some strange reason, I get that feeling with a football in my hand. -And a very good morning, everyone. Welcome to the MCG Grand Final Day 1997 and the TAC Cup for the under-18s. -Here's a chance for Clark, the full forward. Can't take the ball. Strong work out of Goodes, center half forward in front. He's got it. First on the board for the Rebels. -We got six-goal hero Adam Goodes with us. Adam, how are you feeling, mate? -Oh, that was just great, to win today, Grand Final and everything. It was just a good atmosphere. Had the parents here and everyone just played to their best ability. It was just unbelievable. -Congratulations, and I think we'll see you in the AFL in the future... -I first heard Adam's name in the draft, the AFL draft. -Player 3308, Ballarat Rebels, Adam Goodes. -I was sitting at home and my mother was there and we were both watching and the name Adam Goodes came out and Mum goes, "Oh, that's your relation." And I sort of looked at her and I went -- "Nah, you're kidding, Mum. You think -- You think we're all related." And then, she proceeded to go through the family tree and, "That's where he sits in the scheme of things and, technically speaking, he's your uncle." -I looked at her, I said, "I can guarantee you I'm not calling a 17-year-old my uncle." -Just can't wait to get up there, but, I know I'm going to be leaving a lot behind, so. I have to probably say...now, before I leave and that.

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-Goodes accelerates away and puts it through for a goal. -Goodes! That's a wonderful man! -One of the things we tried to do with the players was engage them with the past, really to try and connect them to a history. -Our heritage goes back to this team in South Melbourne who they called the "Bloodstained Angels." We wanted to tap into this heritage of being the Bloods -- hard discipline, fight for everything. -Goodes! -Goodes stretches and then goes, jackhammering it home. -We created our own language in this Bloods culture. We had our set of behaviors. We had our elders to look up to. -Goodes! -

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-Awesome man. -And that's what I absolutely loved and that's what I ate up. They really helped make me who I am.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2003 Brownlow Medal. -The Brownlow Medal is the Most Valuable Player of the Year Award. This is the individual award that every boy dreams of as a kid, that, one day, you'll be the Brownlow medalist. -Sydney, A. Goodes, 2-0.

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-What does it mean for you to be a Brownlow medalist now? -I don't know. I really don't know.

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-Yeah. -It's a dream. I can't believe it. -And your poor mum, who's over there, she still hasn't quite got over the shock of it over there. Lisa, can we ask you, how are you feeling at the moment, looking at this son of yours up here? -I'm elated. I still can't believe it.

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-Congratulations, Adam. Great stuff, mate.

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-I had my mum there, who had sacrificed a lot in her life. You can just see how proud she was of me and the role that she had played, getting me there. -He said to me, "If I keep working hard, I can get even better," which is scary.

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-As soon as I realized that I was one of those Bloods and I deserved to be there, that's when I had aspirations to be an elder, be a leader in that culture. -For the first time in 72 years, the Swans are champions of the AFL. -The winner of the 2006 Brownlow Medal is Adam Goodes.

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-There's no doubts, if you win a Brownlow Medal. You win two, you're a superstar. You're one of the greatest players in the history of the game. -When you get to a Grand Final, the adrenaline that's coursing through your veins has you overcoming a lot of physical ailments, but there are some things that just stops people. -Goodes. A deflection. Jetta. -Right now, Goodes not moving all that well. -The physio comes out. He goes, "Come off, come off," so I sort of hobble off to the bench. -And Goodes has had some posterior cruciate ligament damage in the past. -I look at him. I go, "Is the PCL okay?" He goes, "No. It's ruptured." John Longmire's next to me and he grabs my arm just as we're about to run out. He goes, "Goodes, are you okay?" I said, "Horse, I'm alright. Leave me alone." I can run in a straight line. I can't change direction and I can't stop very quickly. -Goodes in a good spot. And, yes, he does! Morton has to fish for it. Still fishing. No one's got him and he's hooked a big one! -To Grundy. And then off the step to... A big fly... Goodes. Can he roll it through?! He can! Cometh the moment, cometh the champion. They've done it. -He wasn't able to run until four months later. That gives you some sort of indication how bad that injury was. You go to any Aboriginal community around Australia and you ask them about Adam Goodes and the smile comes to the face straightaway and there's a sense of pride and they'll just say, "That bloke's deadly. He's deadly."

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-The first time in AFL when I was racially vilified, I would've been 24, 25. The guy called me, "You black monkey-looking

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." -We should be bigger than that and you hear that, you know, "Sticks and stones," all of that, but, boy, names can really hurt you. You shrivel inside, shrink. It suffocates you. It strangles you. I remember, when I was a boy, someone would turn and say something, "You black

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. Nigger. Abo. Coon." I wouldn't even know how to respond. You know, what do I do? Do I punch this person? Do I yell? What do I do? Who do I turn to? And that powerlessness just overwhelms you. It becomes crippling. -One of the most hurtful things was when I was representing Australia and we were at a camp going on to the world championships and the Australian team was seated at a table and a fellow Australian athlete, wearing the green and gold, said to me, "Pass the salt, nigger." And no one said anything. Was dealt with after, behind closed doors. And he said to me, "Oh, I didn't know that that was offensive." Really?

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The n-word? You did not think that that was offensive?

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-When I first come to AFL, oh, my, racism was full-on. Don't worry about that.

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From players, but most of it from spectators. -The name calling thing was just

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. -We played Collingwood at Victoria Park in April of 1993. -When me and Nicky walked out, they started giving it to us straightaway. They were calling us everything under the Sun. They were calling us Abos. They'd talk about our people being hung and raping our women. -I said to Gilbert, "Did you hear what they were saying out there before we ran out on the field?" He said, "Yeah, brus. Don't worry. We'll fix that on the scoreboards." -I said to him, "Brus, we just got to play deadly today. Let's run amuck and let's stick it up this mob. Me and you both get best on ground today. -Here's McAdam on the boundary line. Tucks it under the arm. Sprints into goal. A brilliant player. -Oh. -Ah, that very sensational play. Gilbert McAdam. Right, here's Winmar. From 60 meters. Nicky Winmar kicks! The brilliant Winmar. -Then, I was called a black

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and they're going to kill my family, they're going to find out where we live. I just looked around, raised my jumper and pointed to my skin and I said, "I'm Black and I'm proud." -Yeah, I'm proud of Nick for doing that. -There was something incredibly powerful about that moment. Remember the 1968 Olympics, John Carlos and Tommie Smith. That image has lasted a lifetime. That's the Nicky Winmar image for Australia. It's not the Black fist in the air. It's the Black skin on his body, and pointing to it and saying, "This is who I am." -But to be able to stand up, raise your voice, make an example of yourself, it takes a toll. -I did go through a lot and I just didn't want to play the game anymore. I was tired of being angry towards other players on the field and fighting all that stuff because it wasn't a part of footy.

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-Welcome back to "The Footy Show." -I meant to go onto the show. I didn't turn up. -Nicky Winmar was scheduled to be on "The Footy Show" tonight. -

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-No, well, we believe that Nicky has disappeared. -Sam Newman could be a very crude person sometimes. -It's Fremantle versus the West Coast. There was plenty of drama --

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-Sorry I'm late, mate. This is as close as we could get. He's not here.

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Ask me some questions about the Western Bulldogs.

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-It's not funny. I thought it was disgusting. -A normal white person in society, they can prove themselves and then, once they've proved themselves, that can be accepted. If you're a blackfella, you still got to keep proving yourself, no matter where you go and what you do, because you're judged as a blackfella and you're always judged as a blackfella. -As a football club, we wanted all of our players to do some extra study. I was seen as an Indigenous role model and I actually still didn't really know what it meant to be an Indigenous person. -Adam went and studied Aboriginal studies. I was very, very fortunate growing up because it was drummed into me as a young kid and I forget that Adam missed out on a lot of that. He knew he was Aboriginal, but I didn't know about our culture and our history and what we've gone through. -When Captain Cook landed and claimed that Australia was terra nullius, he claimed that there was no civilization living here in Australia. Our land was taken off us. We were raped, murdered, massacred, and this is a day that people celebrate. We don't celebrate the Holocaust. We don't celebrate these moments in history where, for one side of the story, it's a tragic, tragic story. But we do in Australia. For me, learning about all this stuff just brought up all these emotions inside of me and I was angry. Ever since I did my diploma in Indigenous studies, going on my own personal journey about who I am as an Indigenous person, anything that has been said about me, about my Aboriginality, derogatory, racist, I'm going to call it out.

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-It's Friday Night Footy, the beginning of the Indigenous Round. Big night here. It's the Swans and Collingwood. -Every year, we have, in the AFL, Indigenous Round, where we pay tribute and look at the talent that is there and celebrate the wonderful champions, but also look at the issues involved in Indigenous Australia and see where we can challenge ourselves. -I'm here with Micky O'Loughlin, one of the great Indigenous players of all time. Now, Mick, it's 20 years since this photo was taken, a really iconic Australian football photo -- Nicky Winmar at Victoria Park, after some taunts from the crowd. -Leading into Indigenous Round, it actually was the 20-year anniversary of Nicky Winmar. I did exactly that photo to celebrate, signifying, "You know what? I'm just as proud as Nicky Winmar to be Black and Indigenous." -This photo represents a lot of the sacrifice that these guys have made to make the game what it is today, and now, let's go out and play footy. We don't have to worry about all the other, I guess, garbage that the guys used to put up with. -So, Friday Night Football about to get underway. -The thing about our sport is that the crowd rides every bump, every tackle, every score. As a player, being out here and feeling that emotion from the crowd is fantastic.

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-400 AFL goals to that man. What a great player he's been. -The fans are pretty close, and we want them to be close and to be able to, at times, feel like they could reach out and touch you. -Goodes. He's been so brilliant tonight. What a handball. What a goal. They're having a night now.

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-Just over that full pocket is where the incident happened. I just remember running down Collingwood's end and I grabbed the ball right near the boundary and I get pushed closer to the fence. And I hear from the crowd, "Goodes, you're an ape." Time just sort of stopped in my head as a, "Whoa." And I just turned around and I said to the security guard, "I want her out of here." Now, when I looked at the person, I could see it was a kid. -Has Adam Goodes had a word to somebody in the crowd, do you think? -He definitely went back and pointed at someone in the crowd. Something has happened there. He's definitely not happy about something. -I just remember hearing a bit of a ripple through the crowd and wondering what had gone on.

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-Bit going on in the area to which Goodes pointed. Security seem to think they've got their woman. -I come off the bench, I sit down, and then it just sort of hits me, the emotion of what she's called me and I just walked off the ground and walked out into the medical room underneath and I just burst into tears. I hadn't been racially abused for eight years and it just rocked me. -Australia's history was born out of the idea that Aboriginal people were somehow subhuman, lower on the evolutionary scale. So when someone sees an ape, what's someone like Adam going to hear? "You're subhuman, Adam." You know? "You're not like us." -As soon as the game finished, I immediately went into the Sydney Swans' room to speak to Adam personally, to find out what had happened. We apologized to him, that he had to go through something like that, particularly on such a significant night, and that we would be there for him in every step of the way. -Would've been easier if it was a drunk, white 25- to 35-year-old male, but because it was a young girl, it actually created more conversations about, "What are we saying in front of our kids?"

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-Racism's not born in us. Something put that there. Why would she think that you can use that word towards an Aboriginal person? -Adam Goodes has delivered a powerful message denouncing racism after telling how an insult from a young Collingwood supporter left him shattered. -I had the absolute privilege of meeting the great man Nicky Winmar, two days ago, now, and what he was able to do for us 20 years ago and to be able to make a stand myself and say, you know, racism has a face last night and, you know, it was a 13-year-old girl, but, it's not her fault. All I wanted to get across was "Racism is unacceptable, but she's a kid -- she didn't know what she was saying. She was influenced by others. We need to support her." The person that needs the most support right now is the little girl. You know, people need to get around her. She's 13. She's uneducated, you know. If she wants to pick up the phone and call me and apologize, I'll take that phone call and I'll have a conversation with that girl about, "You know what? You called me a name. This is how it made me feel." -How is she? It's been a couple of days, now. You've had national attention. She's had a really rough time. How is your daughter? -She's not doing too bad, considering everything that's happened. -Do you feel a bit angry about the way she's been treated, here? -The way she was treated at the ground, by the security and the police, yes. -You know Adam Goodes said she was the face of racism. Did that concern you? -She's only a 13-year-old little girl. This has really been taken way out of proportion. -Joanne Looney, who is the mother of Julia, the child in the middle of this. -I think Adam had good intentions, but I judge it by the result. In the end, an example was being made of a 13-year-old. -You can't let your ideology, your race politics, you wish to improve things, get in the way of the fact you're dealing with a girl. -Unfortunately, people wanted to focus on Adam being a bully and picking on a 13-year-old girl and it was turned around really quickly. -Feedback that I was getting on my social media, Twitter, in particular, was, "Toughen up, Goodes. She's only a young girl," and then, they'll post pictures of me and an ape -- "Well, actually, you do look like an ape." And this was just constant. -The whole message that I tried to get across is that we need to talk about this and we didn't have to wait too long until that conversation actually started again. -One of the great promos ever was the hand of the gorilla at the top of -- was it the Rialto? -No, no, it was the Eureka. -Yeah? What a great promo that is for...for "King Kong." -Football's racism row has erupted again after bizarre comments from Collingwood President Eddie McGuire, just days after Goodes was hurt by a teenager's insult during a Swans match at the MCG. -Hang on a minute. This is the guy who, four nights earlier, is shaking my hand, saying this is unacceptable, but he's on radio, making a joke about King Kong, a gorilla; and me. -It was just a mistake. It was a misspoken moment.

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I had run myself into the ground a bit that week. I was exhausted and, the night before, I was actually hosting a symposium to raise money to try and help Indigenous boys and girls come to private schools. It's a very disappointing moment for me to be sitting here today. I made a slip-of-the-tongue remark this morning that was actually the opposite of what I was thinking at the time, but what went away went away and it's as simple as that. I was trying to make the point that, in the old days, there were variety shows in Australia, the Black and white minstrels, et cetera, where this would've been set up as satire and I was trying to make that point and I completely stuffed up what I was trying to say. I've spoken to Adam Goodes today, who, again, showed the class that he has to accept my call. -When I finally took his call, I just said, "You're not a friend." He just forgot where he was. He forgot that he was on radio and it was just an off-the-cuff thing that he would say at a barbecue, at a bar. And it just highlighted my point that casual racism is there, it's alive and it's flourishing in our communities. -I don't think anything racial at all. I think it was just, like he said, a slip of the tongue and it was a bit of a joke. -I don't think either of these comments were being deliberately racist. I think we're getting a little bit thin-skinned. -It's just something that came out. Anybody could've said it. -Innocent mistake then, you think, Shirley? -Oh, absolutely, yes. -I don't think most Australians know what the big deal is.

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I don't think they understand what is racist and what isn't. -Can you be racist if you don't intend to be racist? -It is possible for people who are not necessarily racist to make racist statements and they make them out of ignorance. -People think, because it's casual and because it happens everywhere and because we do it in our backyard barbecues and because it happens in the schoolyard and because it happens at work, "It's just a joke, you know? Have a bit of a laugh." But, again, it comes back to that much deeper thing of not understanding the impact of that on people that have to hear it. -People couch the question of racism from the perspective of the person uttering the words, rather than the perspective of the person to whom the words were directed. -Some of the comments I've just heard presuppose that we need a policy of national clairvoyance to understand exactly how a comment is going to be heard. -People just don't have a perspective of the reality of the situation and, unless you've been there yourself, you'll never, never know because you'll never, never go, because you're not Black. -Growing up, we didn't really know how we were Indigenous, or what that actually meant. -

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-People said, "Are you Aboriginal?" I was like, "Yeah, I am. I'm from Adnyamathanha tribe," but that's all I knew. And that's all I think my mum knew. When I started to ask questions about the past, I started to notice that she'd clam up and she didn't want to talk about it. I just knew that she was taken away and that we had a white nana, for some reason.

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-The idea was that Aboriginal people would die out. People were being sent off to reserves and missions where, effectively, they would disappear. But, of course, we didn't disappear. Governments tried to develop policy to deal with what was seen as the "Aboriginal problem," and one of the ideas was assimilation, -But it's with the children that the real hope for assimilation lies. Their education should be intended not merely to fulfill the normal educational requirements, but also to fit them for taking their place in society. -You were five, right? -Yeah, about five, going on six. -Yeah. It's hard, isn't it, Mama? That was gut-wrenching, to hear my mum tell that story and break down in front of me.

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-Part of that policy was to take children from families, take them off into children's homes, where they would be educated and then set out to work for white families. They would marry, potentially, white people and have white kids, who would eventually be absorbed into the Commonwealth. There's an incredible picture used at the time as a way of explaining the assimilation policy -- a dark grandmother, her slightly lighter daughter, and her daughter's blond-haired son. -My mum actually, at this point in time, is up in Sydney, getting some help for her trauma. -Mum was very strong, bringing us kids up, because she didn't lose us like she was taken from her parents, so, I think, once we all left, it sort of, you know, had this, she didn't have to be strong anymore and, yeah.

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Yeah, she's still dealing with it. -There's a whole generation that's an educated generation of Aboriginal people who are saying, "We've got an inherent responsibility and we're going to talk about the past. We're going to talk about the intergenerational trauma that's passed down. We're going to talk about the pain of our mothers and grandmothers sufferings and white Australia need to hear the truth." -Most Australians would know Adam Goodes as one of the great champions of Australian Rules football, but Adam is far more than just a sportsman. He's an extraordinary Australian who has committed himself to some of the toughest social issues that we face. -I met Adam when we were actually filming the Australian of the Year Awards. I was the producer for the TV show.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, the 2014 Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes.

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-He spoke with passion and conviction and just an honesty that you can't deny. -Thank you, Australia, for this award. It is a huge honor. Growing up as an Indigenous Australian, I have seen and experienced my fair share of racism. Whilst it has been difficult a lot of the time, it has also taught me a lot and shaped my values and what I believe in today. -His speech was beautiful. He used that opportunity to tell the whole of Australia who Adam Goodes was. -I believe racism is a community issue which we all need to address and that's why racism stops with me. -In a way, it's the greatest expression of patriotism, to say, "I believe in my country so much and, when my country fails me, I have to confront it. I will stand up to make my country better." -I'm not here to tell you what to think or how to act or raise your children. All I'm here to do is tell you about my experiences and hope you choose to be aware of your actions and interactions so that, together, we can eliminate racism. Thank you so much and have a great Australia Day.

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-I'm so proud to be Australian. This award is such a huge honor and, on Australia Day for me, you know, it is Invasion Day, it is Survival Day. It's all of those things to Aboriginal people and I think people need to understand today is a day of sorrow, of hurt. -Every action invites a reaction. Sometimes that reaction is going to be extremely nasty.

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-It was Grand Final Day in 2014. -Goodes is down there

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and takes the mark. Runs around. He's kicked his second. -Stuff was just happening in the crowd.

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And then, the next season, it started again and I was just like, "Really, are we still doing this?" -Goodes.

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-And...kind of boos, a little bit of fun -Yeah. -and, hopefully, it's taken in that context. -Back in the old days, if you got booed, you wore it as a badge of honor. You knew you were doing really well.

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-Goodes getting some boos, but he'll be used to that. -But he was getting booed for going near the ball and you're just left there scratching your head.

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-It escalated week on week. He couldn't ignore it. It was at a level that was clearly affecting Adam. -Adam's no different to anyone else. All anyone ever wants is to be seen for who you are and respected for who you are. When you don't get that, that can be the most hurtful, debilitating response to get. And we all respond when we feel like we haven't been seen or we haven't been acknowledged or we've been hurt. - Didn't look pretty, but Goodes was able to cut across and take the mark.

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-I could hear the Carlton supporters booing me as I was lining up. My instincts just took over.

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-Goodes pumps it through.

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-You've been ginning me up all day with the booing and this war cry was just perfect. -I felt immense pride when he did it. I love watching the replay of that. My son practices the same moves in the mirror and I can guarantee you there'll be another hundred thousand young little Aboriginal boys and girls doing the same thing in the mirror. It was awesome. I thought he left a couple of good moves out. -Former Australian of the Year Adam Goodes has sparked a social media storm, performing an Aboriginal war cry during last night's Sydney win over Carlton. -The war cry certainly stirred up Blues fans, many hurling abuse at the man who has become the most booed player in the game. -There was nothing untowards to the Carlton supporters. It's actually something for them to stand up and go, "Yep, cool, we see you. We acknowledge you. Bring it on." -Mimicking of throwing of a spear at someone, I think it's pretty unmistakable what that gesture is and I don't think that was really smart.

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-These things become a herd, a pack. They saw a man who was vulnerable and they piled on. It kept growing.

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-I went over to W.A. and the Western Australian crowd can be loud at the best of times, but they were next-level. Every time I got the ball that period, every time I kicked a goal, they booed.

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-He, in the minds of some, had committed the great sin -- the Black man who complains. Suddenly, he wasn't just "Adam Goodes, the footballer," he was "Adam Goodes, the angry Aborigine." People don't like the angry Aborigine. It cuts deep here. It's something that reminds us of a history that we'd really rather leave in the past.

Booing

-Football, for me, was a place where I got accepted, just being good at football. Didn't matter, the color of my skin. Didn't matter where I came from. This safe place that helped me break down barriers actually became the place that I hated to walk out onto. Watching that game in Perth, my son said, "Dad, why are they booing Uncle?" And I said like, "Oh, hang on. I don't --" I had no words for my seven-year-old, to say, "Mate, they're booing him because he's Black." -I came out and told people that this has racial undertones and I'd like it to stop, and it didn't stop. -Adam said, "This is racist. This is unacceptable." I think, from that point forward, anyone that continued to boo was racist. -The subject of whether booing at sporting events is racist has dominated conversations around the country. -This debate is raging now, on social media, about is it racially motivated and I don't think it is racially motivated. -Maybe Adam Goodes should have a look within at some of the actions he has done that is inciting this type of reaction. -Adam Goodes was a symbol we could really unite around before this, but when people see a man richer than they are, more successful than they are, acting like he's the victim of a race war that they can't even see, suddenly, his symbolism is tarnished. -People are not booing you because you're an Aboriginal. They're booing you because you're acting like a jerk. -What would they know? What would they know? What would they know what it's like to be a blackfella? From the day you're born, from the day you go to school, from the day you go to work, we deal with it every day. -It's not Adam Goodes' responsibility to fix this matter up. I find that extraordinary, that the person who feels that he's been racially vilified has been asked to do something to stop it. This is a dangerous time for Australia and, if we don't deal with this matter, I'm afraid how Aboriginal people will react to this. -We've got to look ourselves in the mirror, here, guys. We've got to face our demons, as Australians. We are racist. -It was not appropriate. It was not respectful. It did not show the best of us. It was ignorant. And, often, someone has to break for that to cease, unfortunately. -I was done. I called up John Longmire. I just broke down. "I'm not coming in today. I can't do it." -He was emotional. He was clearly drained. I was feeling pretty helpless at the time. I tried my best to look through his eyes. I tried to think that way, but the reality is I have no idea what it's like to walk in Adam's shoes, or any Indigenous person shoes. -In the eyes of my son, Adam Goodes was Superman and what he endured was he just got showered with kryptonite and, when you can bring down Aboriginal children's Superman, what does that say for anyone who wants to put their hand up and call racism out? -I just was sitting there, thinking, "I don't want to be here." -He came home and he told me he was leaving that night. -When you're in a dark place, it's like you've completely forgotten everything anybody ever said to you that was good or that you think over all the bad things that have ever happened to you. All you think about is all the bad things people have said to you. And it's on a stereo, playing the loudest possible decibels in your head. Echoing in your mind, "You're worth nothing. I don't even care about you. Go away." -To stand on a land and say, "Two thousand generations of my family are from here. I'm born out of this place," that feeling is not something that you can feel anywhere else. For Adam to go back was the Aboriginal part of him talking.

Flames crackling

-So this is where it all began, I suppose. And all of that mob lived up and down this river, eh? -This...all the way along and all the way back the other way. What you need to do is, now, reconnect to country -Yep. -and the best way to do that is your feet in the soil. So the spirit of the land will now...for you, Adam. -I could lay here all day. -I can't speak for what lay in the hearts of the people who booed Adam Goodes, but I can tell you what we heard when we heard those boos. We heard a sound that was very familiar to us. We heard a howl. We heard a howl of humiliation that echoes across two centuries of dispossession, injustice, suffering, and survival. We heard the howl of the Australian dream and it said to us, again, "You're not welcome." "Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free." My people die young in this country. We die 10 years younger than average Australians and we are far from free. The Australian dream is rooted in racism. It is there at the birth of the nation. It is there in terra nullius -- an empty land, a land for the taking. People of music and art and dance and politics -- none of it mattered because our rights were extinguished because we were not here, according to British law. In 1963, when I was born, I was counted among the flora and fauna, not among the citizens of this country. -Our people, they worked on oral history -Mm. -was passed down, see? -It's the best way to be educated, when you're ready to listen. -Yeah. -Can't force people to listen. -The response that I got was overwhelming, other Aboriginal people saying, "That's what we feel like. You've said how we feel." But the response from non-Indigenous Australians was extraordinary, too. -From suburban football grounds to the SCG, there's been an overwhelming show of support for Adam Goodes today. -Right across the country, footballers took to the field in honor of one of the game's icons. -I was overwhelmed. Up in the Northern Territory, the little kids at the Garma Festival had "37" painted on their backs. -He didn't play for the Swans, but his presence was felt as football supporters pulled for an end to discrimination.

Cheering, whistling, and applause

-The game that he missed had a moment for him where everyone stood up.

Cheering and applause

-It's a standing ovation here at the SCG. Adam Goodes, if you're watching,

Whistle blows

this is for you. Everybody wants you back to football. -Yeah. -Everybody wishes you the best. And, when I say everybody, have a look at this. -What we saw, ultimately, was the true measure of who we are. It wasn't the booing. It was the people who stood up to the booing. It can never be too late. It can never be too late for that. Our history is a history of violence and racism, and it's a history of people overcoming that, people reaching across that divide.

Cheering, whistling, and applause

-Jetta. This would bring the house down. From outside 50...

Cheering, whistling, and applause

And there's the celebration. -I stand with Adam. -I stand with Adam. -I stand with Adam. -I stand with Adam. -I stand with Adam. -I stand with Adam.

Door creaking

-When I heard from him, I was so relieved. He sounded good. He sounded like himself a bit more.

Birds squawking

-Back from his self-imposed exile, Adam Goodes was getting nothing but crowd love today,

Cheering and whistling

confirming he'd be playing this Saturday against Geelong. -Getting away from everything really did empower me to have the strength to come back for those last couple of games, but I knew it was going to be over. -While the retiring Rhyce Shaw was cheered off, the typically understated Goodes told teammates behind closed doors. -My ending is my ending. I chose to end it the way that I wanted to. -Mostly, the body stops players. The heart and the mind is willing, but the body says no. And, when you're in Adam's circumstance, I reckon his heart was broken. -It's going from a kid who loved his football, who was obsessed with his footy and was good at it, to, now, "I don't even need to watch a game anymore." -From the convicts to the waves of migrants fleeing Europe after World War II, to people who've come in boats looking for a new beginning, that's what the Australian dream offers, in a sense, a refuge from history. So the Australian dream is something that people reach for and many people attain it, but there's an emptiness at the heart of it because it hasn't resolved the questions of its own history. In Australia today, one group of people, a people linked directly to that history of suffering and injustice, are still suffering today and we still haven't found a way to deal with that. But what's been remarkable is that a new space has opened up. I can feel it. I hear it everywhere. The space that's opened up now is allowing us to loosen the chains of that history and to find something bigger about what it is to belong in this country. There's a space to find each other and Adam helped create that space. -You want us to harden up? How about you come on the journey with us and help us? We don't want any handouts anymore. We want a hand up. Let's give each other a hand up, help educate each other, create better opportunities for all of us. We've got enough wealth in this country to spread it around. We shouldn't have the disadvantage that we have in this country the way we do. -It's the sad thing, isn't it? That people have to suffer for us to get better. I know that will never leave him, but my hope for him is that he can keep his eyes on what he's achieved and that he can show others that there's a path from the worst of Australia to the best of Australia.

Children shouting

I stand - I stand - For my sisters I stand for my cousins - I stand - I stand for the children I stand for my brothers - I stand - Would you stand with me? If we stand for each other Would you stand with me? - I stand If we stand for each other - I stand - Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu