Lidia Thorpe has taken aim at Sam Newman over his comments about the Welcome to Country, with the former AFL player telling Australians to 'boo or slow clap' when it is read out at events.
Lidia Thorpe has taken aim at Sam Newman over his comments about the Welcome to Country, with the former AFL player telling Australians to"boo or slow clap" when it is read out at events.
"What about this, next time you go to a public event like the Grand Final or a football game or any public event in an auditorium and they trot out the Welcome to Country, start booing ... or slow hand clapping." "Because we don't want to put up with it. We are not going to be patronised," the AFL personality continued.
Senator Thorpe appeared on Nine's Today show on Thursday where she slammed Newman and told the 77-year-old to"educate himself" as"we are all on stolen land"."A Welcome to Country is simply that, we all are on stolen land, there has never been a treaty, and a Welcome to Country is a way to bring people along on an understanding of the country that you are all living on.
Host Karl Stefanovic then flagged some commentators had argued the overuse of certain traditional Indigenous ceremonies meant it was losing"effectiveness". "There's a lot of beautiful stories that go with welcomes and people learn from that and people have a deeper understanding on how to protect the country.
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