'Where is the next Cathy?': AOC Indigenous committee searches for truth and talent | phillutton78
Patrick Johnson means it when he says life is all about timing. The dual Olympian is the fastest Australian in history, having stopped the clock at 9.93 seconds for 100 metres in Japan in 2003. In his business, every fraction of a second counted.
"So how do we celebrate that but also as a collective, how do we share this? Of course you can have great performances, but what does that mean for the country and as an Olympic movement? The oldest living culture plus Torres Strait Islanders, how do we celebrate that?" "There's always a moment in time or a catalyst," he says. "Black Lives Matter has created an opportunity to talk about it, because it's front and centre all around the world. We have to deal with it now, because it's right in front of us. It's good and bad, let's be honest.
"With Black Lives Matter it's created a different space. We need to talk a lot more. People might think, 'I better not ask that because it might offend'. But we see it as: 'Hang on, if you don't ask, you don't know'. "We want to see another Cathy," he says. "Why haven't we seen one? Where is the pathway for another Cathy Freeman? Let's create a path for that to happen, let's work with organisations and try to make that work.
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