Indigenous AFL great Mathew Stokes has provided a damning assessment of Welcome to Country ceremonies after a recent iteration before a semi-final divided Australians.
An Indigenous premiership winner has claimed the Welcome to Country has been used to"push agendas" after a contentious ceremony prior to an AFL semi-final over the weekend.
He argued it was"not a ceremony we've invented to cater for white people" and claimed it had been done by Indigenous Australians for"250,000 years-plus" before the arrival of Captain James Cook. "I feel the moment is, in some instances, being used by people who take the chance, when speaking to more than a million people watching on television, to push their own views rather than a chance for all present to show respect for the deep history attached to the land on which the game is being played." he wrote.
During Wednesday's episode of SEN Sportsday, hosts Gerard Healy and Kane Cornes discussed the conjecture over the ceremony with AFL Record editor Ash Browne.
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