Wayne Carey Says He Is Indigenous (or might be and might look into it one day)
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Ok, Well Wayne Carey is now the best indigenous player I have seen. It was Buddy but now I’ll have to go with Wayne.
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Greatest Indigenous player ever.
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What's more he said it (or broadly hinted at it) in his ghost-written memoir 10 years ago.
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As the great Noni Hazlehurst said "You're not special. You're unique."
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Was it even him who said it? I think it was NLM
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How does this work? I’m 46yo and recently my Dad who was adopted found out his birth father was from Cyprus. I’ve got fair skin and red hair so never a consideration I wasn’t an ‘Aussie’…..
But now I know this there’s no logic to me saying ‘I’m a Cypriot’. It doesn’t worry me but it’s patently ridiculous to say I’m a Cypriot.
Maybe it’s my ignorance and Indigenous heritage is explained differently..?
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But now I know this there’s no logic to me saying ‘I’m a Cypriot’. It doesn’t worry me but it’s patently ridiculous to say I’m a Cypriot.
Maybe it’s my ignorance and Indigenous heritage is explained differently..?
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Shane Heard
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Carey himself went on a little story telling time explaining the revelation.
Apparently as kids in Wagga he was treated/classed as an aboriginal First Nation indigenous kid.
A big tall white indigenous kid.
Might be Indigenous. Might have been his dad scamming Centrelink.
I'd have thought any reasonable person would get a proper family tree done, maybe even a DNA test (more useful to identify relatives than ethnicity), speak to Indigenous elders and historians and then make a decision about whether they want to identify as an Indigenous person.
I'd have thought any reasonable person would get a proper family tree done, maybe even a DNA test (more useful to identify relatives than ethnicity), speak to Indigenous elders and historians and then make a decision about whether they want to identify as an Indigenous person.
Yep. If you were not raised in the culture it is sort of hard to argue a person is indigenous, especially when they are clearly basically white.
I suspect if you go back far enough many of us have a lot of different races and cultures in us but if you were not raised with that culture it doesn't really count.
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As bad as her deception was, at least she didn’t fake an accent like Hilary Baldwin.
I don't think it was a deception though, mostly just some bullshit that had been passed down through her family and accepted as truth. I have been told a good portion of my life that my family played a part in starting up Keens Mustard, and I am also vaguely related to the original voice over for the VB ad, and both could be true, but I have not researched it.
If you were living in Cyprus you might tell a few people. Up to you .
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At her age she should have know one way or the other. She got busted and retracted everything claimed going back decades.
Quite a decent sized indigenous population in Wagga.
Double the national average as a %.
Just had a look on abs census data.
You never lived in Cyprus.
Wayne grew up in and around indigenous folk.
He grew up in indigenous folk? I thought he'd have waited until he was a teenager at least.
Perdóneme, I think you mean Hilaria
