Brisbane Roar goalkeeper Jamie Young was playing a game against the Western Sydney Wanderers when one of their supporters heckled him, calling him a ‘monkey’. ‘What you don’t know,’ says Jamie ‘is that I’ve been tolerating that kind of abuse for 13 years while playing in England. I even signed for a team where the club secretary said that I looked like a terrorist.’
Acknowledgement of country
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of all the lands on which we meet, work and live and recognise that this land has always been and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.
Multicultural Australia respects and values Australia’s First Nation peoples’ enormous resilience, courage, determination and often unrecognized contributions to this country’s social and economic development. We walk together in solidarity in the shared pain of the past and with shared hope for the future.
