Goodes - Australian of the Year!!

**Primmy** · 17th January 2014, 02:11 PM

Adam Goodes, NSW Australian of the Year

Just read on twitter that Adam Goodes has been named NSW Australian of the Year.

My biggest soggiest snoggiest hug of congratulations to you Adam. Doing yourself, your family, your community, your club and your admirers proud.

**CJK** · 17th January 2014, 02:14 PM

And they say social media enables you to get the news faster...

**liz** · 17th January 2014, 02:24 PM

Adam Goodes named NSW Australian of the Year

Yep, here's the media report from November.

It might have re-emerged in the media in the lead up to Australia Day. I presume the Australian of the Year is selected from each of the state awardees??

**stellation** · 17th January 2014, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by liz

Adam Goodes named NSW Australian of the Year

Yep, here's the media report from November.

It might have re-emerged in the media in the lead up to Australia Day. I presume the Australian of the Year is selected from each of the state awardees??

Yep, the state awards are essentially just that state's nominations in the four categories (with Adam's category being "Australian of the Year").

**Untamed Snark** · 17th January 2014, 08:08 PM

Adam is on channel 10 right now.
Talking about his life & family and how he became a footballer

**neilfws** · 17th January 2014, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Untamed Snark

Adam is on channel 10 right now.
Talking about his life & family and how he became a footballer

Here's a link to the show. Adam is on after Ita Buttrose.

This Is My Australia - Ep. 1 - Network Ten

**PerthSwannie** · 19th January 2014, 12:48 PM

Here`s a great article in The Australian on our Goodesie. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226803843977

**Primmy** · 20th January 2014, 01:52 PM

Would love to read it but can't as I don't (and won't) pay for another newspaper - the Australian is not allowing access.

Shame, because I really wanted to read this article. Many thanks for the thought though.

**YvonneH** · 20th January 2014, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Primmy

Would love to read it but can't as I don't (and won't) pay for another newspaper - the Australian is not allowing access.

Shame, because I really wanted to read this article. Many thanks for the thought though.

This applies to me also

**Big Al** · 20th January 2014, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Primmy

Would love to read it but can't as I don't (and won't) pay for another newspaper - the Australian is not allowing access.

Shame, because I really wanted to read this article. Many thanks for the thought though.

The Australian is a News Limited rag so even if you paid me a dozen cheerleaders and a years supply of beer I still wouldn't read it.

**PerthSwannie** · 20th January 2014, 07:46 PM

Here`s the article for those who don`t have access to The Oz............However, Sorry Big Al, but you`ve elected not to read it...

Adam Goodes and the 'matter of choice'

THE first choice he makes is to turn around. "Nah," he tells himself. "This isn't happening."

May 24, 2013, in the dying minutes of the Sydney Swans versus Collingwood Magpies opening match of the AFL's annual Indigenous Round, Swans powerhouse Adam Goodes chooses to turn his 100kg, 191cm frame towards an MCG crowd of 65,306 people and face the 13-year-old girl seated on the boundary fence who just called him an ape. He then chooses to point his right arm straight towards the crowd. This muscular, thick-boned weapon of a limb has contributed to 5797 disposals, 1829 handballs and 409 goals in a thrilling 16-year career. But now it's a spotlight. It's a thing of incandescence, a thing of fire. He then chooses to remove his mouthguard and call to a dazed steward resting against the fence with his arms folded across his kneecaps. "Mate," he says. "I don't want her here. Get her out."

The moment takes 19 seconds to unfold. And 200 years to arise.

Adam Goodes was named the NSW Australian of the Year two months ago. On Australia Day eve he could well be named our nation's Australian of the Year or this newspaper's Australian of the Year. He's been recognised as much for his community work - domestic violence awareness ambassador, working with kids in youth detention centres, establishing the Go Foundation with his cousin and fellow Swans great Michael O'Loughlin to create indigenous role models in all walks of life - as for the courage he showed that night at the MCG and the compassion he showed the girl thereafter. "I've had fantastic support over the past 24 hours," Goodes said at the time. "I just hope that people give the 13-year-old girl the same sort of support because she needs it, her family needs it, and the people around them need it. It's not a witch-hunt. I don't want people to go after this young girl. We've just got to help educate society better so it doesn't happen again."

EDIT: Sorry to be a party pooper, but the article is paid premium content on their site, and in breach on RWO rules for reproducing the entire article.
Many of us have already read the article now and have appreciated you posting this, but I've now chosen to remove the article on the off chance the paper or writer sees fit to complain.
I hope you understand. Scott

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