Narrm - Melbourne Football Club

[Johnny Bananas]

Wondering what sort of conversations this is going to start.... Seems tokenistic to me, but good on them for at least thinking outside the box, just not sure what it achieves or solves.

So what's not tokenism to you? What should a football club be trying to achieve or solve with regard to Indigenous Round?

 

[HugeJohnson]

So what's not tokenism to you? What should a football club be trying to achieve or solve with regard to Indigenous Round?

You know, Port Adelaide has arguably worked harder for indigenous communities than any other club in the AFL.

The Santos Aboriginal Power Cup is the longest running joint education and AFL community program for Aboriginal students in the Australian professional sports industry, which culminates in a football carnival during Sir Doug Nicholls round

Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

The official AFL website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Power Community Ltd.
programs cover some of the key issues in society including; health, wellbeing and resilience, gender inequality and respectful relationships, cultural awareness and reconciliation, youth education pathways and retention, and employment transitions.

Programs are focused on Aboriginal, Youth, Multicultural and Defence pillars and are delivered across metropolitan Adelaide through to remote communities in South Australia.

Power Community Limited is a Public Benevolent Institution with a Deductable Gift Recipient status that is governed by a board of directors

The AFL's former head of diversity Jason Mifsud described Port Adelaide's commitment to Indigenous Australians as "courageous" and its work "outstrips any other club five to one".

But you didn't know any of that did you? Because they're not using it to promote themselves, they're running these programs mostly behind the scenes because it's important to the club.

That's not tokenism.

Then we get things like this where its as though Melbourne changing their name arbitrarily for one match, coincidentally being announced at the launch of their indigenous round guernsey is some major industry-leading accomplishment.

It's a harmless gimmick, yeah we all learned a new word, cool. But I'm calling it for what it is, just a gimmick.

 

[ferball]

Pity santos are involved. Alot of blackfellas don't like what they tried in the territory. This sort of PR really shits me at times.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

You know, Port Adelaide has arguably worked harder for indigenous communities than any other club in the AFL.

The Santos Aboriginal Power Cup is the longest running joint education and AFL community program for Aboriginal students in the Australian professional sports industry, which culminates in a football carnival during Sir Doug Nicholls round

Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

The official AFL website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

The AFL's former head of diversity Jason Mifsud described Port Adelaide's commitment to Indigenous Australians as "courageous" and its work "outstrips any other club five to one".

But you didn't know any of that did you? Because they're not using it to promote themselves, they're running these programs mostly behind the scenes because it's important to the club.

That's not tokenism.

Then we get things like this where its as though Melbourne changing their name arbitrarily for one match, coincidentally being announced at the launch of their indigenous round guernsey is some major industry-leading accomplishment.

It's a harmless gimmick, yeah we all learned a new word, cool. But I'm calling it for what it is, just a gimmick.

So everyone has to do that to not be tokenistic? Names don't matter? Names aren't a reminder of culture and the Aboriginal link to country?

 

[glengowan]

Well, it's educated me. Until reading this thread, I only knew of Narrm as a place where Principal Skinner spent 18 months as a Prisoner of War.

 

[maskmcgee]

just not sure what it achieves or solves.

Them going from unbeatable to unable to score coincided precisely with this initiative. Coincidence?