Former footy great Sam Newman has launched another extraordinary attack on First Nations people and the AFL over ‘welcome to country’ speeches before matches.
Most Cairns News readers would agree with Sam Newman’s call to Boo smoking ceremonies which are not genuine Aboriginal cultural heritage, rather a stunt cooked up by indigenous TV personality Ernie Dingo 30 years ago.
Newman urged Australians to boo the traditional ceremony at not only this year’s AFL grand final, but anywhere it is publicly performed.
‘If we are at all serious about the welcome to country and the nonsense that has suddenly taken over in the last 20 years from a completely harmless introduction by Ernie Dingo some years ago and people have latched onto it,’ he said.
Sam Newman has a major gripe with the AFL over its inclusion of the welcome to country ceremony before games
Newman told Australians to boo the traditional ceremony not just at the grand final, but any time it is performed
Newman doubled down when he was challenged by podcast You Cannot Be Serious co-host Don Scott.
‘Because we don’t want to put up with it. We are not going to be patronised,’ he said.
‘Of course it’s being rude, and so who is forcing this nonsense onto us? Who is telling us that we should be welcomed to [the] country that we live in, that we try and cohabitate, cohabit with all the people that have come here – particularly the indigenous people.’
Newman said there were many First Nations Australians share his views on the ceremony.
‘There’s so many people who say it and I keep saying it’s just a push for reparation and financial power. It is, and I’m saying, the next time you go to a football game, a final, and they trot this nonsense out just start booing and that’ll stop (it),’ he said.
‘The AFL should be absolutely horse whipped for whipping people into a frenzy about it. Patronising their whiteness by thinking they can virtuously cast off all their sins on us.
‘Honestly and truly, it’s got to stop because this has divided the country more than anything. We want to be one group of people living together and respecting one another, Don. Start booing or slow hand clapping or something.’
It is not the first time Newman has taken aim at the AFL over its public recognition of First Nations people.
Just days after last year’s AFL grand final, he took a swipe at eulogy at the match for indigenous icon Uncle Jack Charles, branding him a ‘heroin-addicted indigenous felon’.
In a long-winded rant, Newman attacked the league for what he described as ‘virtuous, patronising nonsense’, even taking time to insult former North Melbourne coach Dani Laidley.
‘We had the indigenous show of just nonsense. And then, the only thing they didn’t have is maybe they could have put Dani Laidley in an open car and driven her around at half time in the back of a Jeep or something. I mean, seriously,’ Newman moaned last year.
‘The grand final day was marred by two things … this patronising nonsense about us welcoming the original landowners to this country.
‘Absolutely we admire and we respect and we give thanks to the traditional land owners for where the game is to be played and we acknowledge that.
‘But the virtuous, patronising nonsense that the AFL go on with – a patronising campaign to foster this feigned indignation to divert from their own paranoid white privilege – all they do is drive a wedge between the footballing public, yet we see through it.’
Newman slammed the AFL for forcing football fans to watch not one, but two welcome to country speeches before the ball was even bounced.
‘We had a man with a beard came out and told us… about where the boundaries of all the various tribes and things go. Just an absolute propaganda chat about nothing,’ he said.
‘And then, if that wasn’t enough… then the CEO’s brother gave us welcome to country.’
For the record: Ernie Dingo invented the ‘welcome to country as an adaption from US Indians Public Relations campaign. It is an insult to everyone having this phoney tradition shoved at us and expecting us to tolerate the bunkum — Boo loudly.
Who called the fire brigade?
Indigenous entertainers Ernie Dingo andRichard Whalley, of the Middar Aboriginal Theatre, invented the “welcome to country” in 1976 because two pairs of Maori visitors from NZ and the Cook Islands wanted an equivalent of their own traditional ceremony before they would dance at the Perth International Arts Festival.
This fact is admitted by Ernie Dingo and supported by a press statement from aboriginal Bess Price, Former NT Minister for Community Services.
Editor: We who live among Aborigines in the north recoil in horror every time we see the Canberra mandarins stoking up green eucalyptus leaves in the foyer of new Parliament House. We could forever hope this Freemasonic edifice might burn down.
May also interest people to know that ‘dot painting’ is NOT an aboriginal creation either.
Dot painting was invented by a French artist in the early 1800’s.
Before this time, not one aboriginal painting or ‘work of art’ contained any form of dots!!
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OTSF wants to set up No protestors as terrorists
Josephine Cashman
22 Sept 2023
Original Tribal Sovereign Federation (OTSF) wants to create civil UNrest to justify their UN-planned insurgency. Beware don’t go to the protests. Don’t let OTSF use you for their invasion/occupation agenda. Talk to your neighbours, friends & family about Voting NO in pen instead.
Uluru statement endorsed – The Catholic Weekly
h ttps://www.catholicweekly.com.au/uluru-statement-endorsed
July 6, 2022. A smoking ceremony featured at the Opening Mass of the Plenary’s Second Assembly in North Sydney last weekend. Photo: Giovanni Portelli.
Sacred Smoke & Symbolism of Smoke in different Traditions
h ttps://www.holisticshop.co.uk/articles/sacred-smoke
The Catholic Church has developed a very significant use of smoke over the centuries. As well as burning incense in their ceremonies, they also use it for smoke signals! During the election of a new pope the eligible cardinals conduct secret ballots until one person receives the critical vote of two-thirds plus one.
Exorcists Are Seeing Harmful Consequences From Smoking Ceremonies
h ttps://dailydeclaration.org.au/2022/09/05/exorcists-vs-smoking-ceremonies
Indigenous smoking ceremonies performed for Catholic schoolchildren are creating an alarming spiritual malaise. Although elements of paganism have been creeping into various parishes and dioceses for some time, the blatant idolatry on display during the 2019 Amazon Synod really opened the floodgates. Since that time, faithful Catholics in the West have been inundated by indigenous emblems …
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Correct, the Welcome to Country and the Ernie Dingo Smoking Ceremony were inspired for tourist promotion.
And we Aussies somehow managed to buy it as our history and culture.
Goes to show they can sell us a pos or even a fart as long as they put it in an attractive package. Whoa! Lucky country, Australia.
BTW, as other forum commenters have correctly pointed out, the WHOLE “Welcome to Country” smoking ceremony is ABSOLUTE BS.
Ernie Dingo – an actor and entertainer by profession – plucked it out of his ARSE. It has ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS in history or culture, indigenous or otherwise.
FACE IT, folks, when they pull this “Welcome to Country” BS on us, they’re playing ALL OF US for FOOLS. It’s a FAKE “ceremony” to CONTROL and DIVIDE us.
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Pauline Hanson:
When you know, you will vote NO.
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I had a smoking ceremony for years when I was in the RAAF. I joined at 17 in 1964 and was taught to drink and smoke. We used to have a smoko break but only if you smoked. Of course that convinced me. I was going to stop smoking when they got to $1 per packet. I was returning to Darwin in a C130 and had really bad pains in the chest and went to visit the RAAF Doctor the next morning. He checked me out and asked if I smoked. I stated ‘No I gave up this morning’, he laughed and said I had an infection in the lining of my lungs I should at least cut back. That stopped my smoking ceremonies completely. Lots of us had smoking ceremonies before Ernie Dingo and his mate started it. There was never a ‘smoking ceremony’ in Australia by the Aboriginal people – it was created in 1974 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley – making it a total farce.
Smoking ceremonies… I used to love my half hourly smoking ceremony till the Gubberment stepped in and priced my cultural heritage out of existence.
Not that I’m ungrateful but why is everyone now promoting smoking ceremonies as an Aboriginal cultural tradition to be honoured by all?
Meanwhile, the rest of us are discouraged from SMOKING. It’s hardly FAIR for the Aboriginal population to be treated so unequally.
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It’s worse than the bloody NZ haka that they seem to pull out everytime someone takes a dump.
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Well said Sam, Yes all WEF BS. Carried out by Albo and his minions . Wake up the sheep from your Coma people .
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Hi Ed & Co.
Not related but see Rupert Murdoch is standing down from News Corp in November. From article
“Billionaire Rupert Murdoch has announced he is stepping down as chairman of both Fox Corporation and News Corp after a career of almost 70 years, beginning in 1954.
“But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams.”
His son Lachlan Murdoch will become the sole chair of News Corp and continue as executive chair and chief executive of Fox, following the annual general meetings in mid-November.
Rupert Murdoch will be appointed Chairman Emeritus of each company.
In his memo Rupert Murdoch said his father Keith firmly believed in freedom and that he was committed to the same cause, while he also took aim at sections of the media.
“Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose,” the memo read.
“Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.
The 92-year-old Mr Murdoch proclaimed himself and his empire to be in good health, as he spoke of the changing media landscape.
“Our companies are in robust health, as am I,” he wrote.
“Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years — I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them.
“But the battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense.”
Mr Murdoch also said that while he was stepping down he would be keeping a watchful eye on the companies to which he had devoted his life.
“In my new role, I can guarantee you that I will be involved every day in the contest of ideas,” he added.”
Well said Sam. He is being vilified by sleazbag Albo, dictator Dan and obnoxious Lydia Thorpe, because they know it’s patronising nonsense.
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Arn’t the abbos paid about 10 K for each of these smoke and welcome to country farce? what an incentive to push and continue it
also whoever supports the voice BS are paid as well arn’t they 15 K I believe for an organization, what an incentive that is as well. any wonder we are going down the gurgler sports fans.
May also interest people to know that ‘dot painting’ is NOT an aboriginal creation either.
Dot painting was invented by a French artist in the early 1800’s.
Before this time, not one aboriginal painting or ‘work of art’ contained any form of dots!!
OTSF wants to set up No protestors as terrorists
Josephine Cashman
22 Sept 2023
Original Tribal Sovereign Federation (OTSF) wants to create civil UNrest to justify their UN-planned insurgency. Beware don’t go to the protests. Don’t let OTSF use you for their invasion/occupation agenda. Talk to your neighbours, friends & family about Voting NO in pen instead.
https://josephinecashman.substack.com/p/otsf-wants-to-set-up-no-protestors
Uluru statement endorsed – The Catholic Weekly
h ttps://www.catholicweekly.com.au/uluru-statement-endorsed
July 6, 2022. A smoking ceremony featured at the Opening Mass of the Plenary’s Second Assembly in North Sydney last weekend. Photo: Giovanni Portelli.
Sacred Smoke & Symbolism of Smoke in different Traditions
h ttps://www.holisticshop.co.uk/articles/sacred-smoke
The Catholic Church has developed a very significant use of smoke over the centuries. As well as burning incense in their ceremonies, they also use it for smoke signals! During the election of a new pope the eligible cardinals conduct secret ballots until one person receives the critical vote of two-thirds plus one.
Exorcists Are Seeing Harmful Consequences From Smoking Ceremonies
h ttps://dailydeclaration.org.au/2022/09/05/exorcists-vs-smoking-ceremonies
Indigenous smoking ceremonies performed for Catholic schoolchildren are creating an alarming spiritual malaise. Although elements of paganism have been creeping into various parishes and dioceses for some time, the blatant idolatry on display during the 2019 Amazon Synod really opened the floodgates. Since that time, faithful Catholics in the West have been inundated by indigenous emblems …
Correct, the Welcome to Country and the Ernie Dingo Smoking Ceremony were inspired for tourist promotion.
And we Aussies somehow managed to buy it as our history and culture.
Goes to show they can sell us a pos or even a fart as long as they put it in an attractive package. Whoa! Lucky country, Australia.
Relevant to ALL Australians…
.com/v3jg1q0-boo-who-sam-newman-doubles-down-the-opposition-podcast-no.-14.html
(stick “rumble” at the front)
BTW, as other forum commenters have correctly pointed out, the WHOLE “Welcome to Country” smoking ceremony is ABSOLUTE BS.
Ernie Dingo – an actor and entertainer by profession – plucked it out of his ARSE. It has ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS in history or culture, indigenous or otherwise.
FACE IT, folks, when they pull this “Welcome to Country” BS on us, they’re playing ALL OF US for FOOLS. It’s a FAKE “ceremony” to CONTROL and DIVIDE us.
Pauline Hanson:
When you know, you will vote NO.
I had a smoking ceremony for years when I was in the RAAF. I joined at 17 in 1964 and was taught to drink and smoke. We used to have a smoko break but only if you smoked. Of course that convinced me. I was going to stop smoking when they got to $1 per packet. I was returning to Darwin in a C130 and had really bad pains in the chest and went to visit the RAAF Doctor the next morning. He checked me out and asked if I smoked. I stated ‘No I gave up this morning’, he laughed and said I had an infection in the lining of my lungs I should at least cut back. That stopped my smoking ceremonies completely. Lots of us had smoking ceremonies before Ernie Dingo and his mate started it. There was never a ‘smoking ceremony’ in Australia by the Aboriginal people – it was created in 1974 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley – making it a total farce.
check this out..https://fb.watch/ncR7EWWHKC/
Smoking ceremonies… I used to love my half hourly smoking ceremony till the Gubberment stepped in and priced my cultural heritage out of existence.
Not that I’m ungrateful but why is everyone now promoting smoking ceremonies as an Aboriginal cultural tradition to be honoured by all?
Meanwhile, the rest of us are discouraged from SMOKING. It’s hardly FAIR for the Aboriginal population to be treated so unequally.
It’s worse than the bloody NZ haka that they seem to pull out everytime someone takes a dump.
Well said Sam, Yes all WEF BS. Carried out by Albo and his minions . Wake up the sheep from your Coma people .
Hi Ed & Co.
Not related but see Rupert Murdoch is standing down from News Corp in November. From article
“Billionaire Rupert Murdoch has announced he is stepping down as chairman of both Fox Corporation and News Corp after a career of almost 70 years, beginning in 1954.
“But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams.”
His son Lachlan Murdoch will become the sole chair of News Corp and continue as executive chair and chief executive of Fox, following the annual general meetings in mid-November.
Rupert Murdoch will be appointed Chairman Emeritus of each company.
In his memo Rupert Murdoch said his father Keith firmly believed in freedom and that he was committed to the same cause, while he also took aim at sections of the media.
“Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose,” the memo read.
“Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.
The 92-year-old Mr Murdoch proclaimed himself and his empire to be in good health, as he spoke of the changing media landscape.
“Our companies are in robust health, as am I,” he wrote.
“Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years — I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them.
“But the battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense.”
Mr Murdoch also said that while he was stepping down he would be keeping a watchful eye on the companies to which he had devoted his life.
“In my new role, I can guarantee you that I will be involved every day in the contest of ideas,” he added.”
Full article here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-21/rupert-murdoch-steps-down-as-newscorp-chair/102887474
All F’ing Losers.
Well said Sam. He is being vilified by sleazbag Albo, dictator Dan and obnoxious Lydia Thorpe, because they know it’s patronising nonsense.
Arn’t the abbos paid about 10 K for each of these smoke and welcome to country farce? what an incentive to push and continue it
also whoever supports the voice BS are paid as well arn’t they 15 K I believe for an organization, what an incentive that is as well. any wonder we are going down the gurgler sports fans.