1 grandmother on 1 side (full blooded) and 1 half-caste on the other side.
I wasn't drinking, Nicky was drunk, i was involved with the group. One of the other guys who knew him better was ribbing him about it, the storey came out, Nicky also later on took a swing (not at me) and was kicked out.
My Stepfather was a health inspector to the indigenous communities of the pilbara during the late eighties to mid nineties. I spent a lot of time amongst those communities.
My younger cousin was the aboriginal welfare officer at Curtin university.
I personally raised over 100k for a Save the Children campaign to help indigenous children.
Brother is about to be an officer in the army and was both a cop and a federal cop.
I served in the military during and after the Iraq war for six years.
I have met and talked to Barry on multiple occasions about his upbringing, footballing life and more in particular about the things he has had to do with WA football and indigenous health since.
Polly i never met.
Welcome for you to organise a meeting with as many Nyoongars of prominence as you like (in general they are the most racist and biased aboriginal group i have ever met) and I have had multiple meetings and discussions with a rather famous Nyoongar anthropologist and his opinion is that reverse racism is called for and the indigenous should have more rights than all other peoples of this country due to the atrocities of the past. No equality, no being one people of Australia, no integration only forever 1 group held above all others.
My aboriginal heritage is not Nyoongar, on either side and as such I am of no more similar heritage to Nicky as a black african from the Sudan is to one from Namibia. There was no singular Indigenous people of this country, no singular culture and no singular common language. Anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant, a liar, has an agenda, is after a handout or a combination of any number of those.
Lied many times, been drunk many times, taken a couple of beatings and given a few as well. I'm not perfect but Nicky Winwar in no way deserves a statue at the new Perth stadium and he shouldn't be held up as an idol of Racial significance for an act that was of no such thing whether that be in perth, melbourne, timbuktu or anywhere else. Just because someone misinterprets something doesn't make it right. Intent is everything and the action of withholding the truth is the same as lying.
On this issue i'll stand by everything I have said. Just because something was done to ancestors of yours hundreds of years ago doesn't give you the right to treat others like s**t when they have done no more wrong to you personally than anyone else. We are one people in this country and anybody not willing to accept or become apart of one people is holding the topics of race, family, country and community back.
