Adam Goodes is an Australian rules football professional
March 2024
37 review – this play about racism in AFL is terrific, thrilling – and a wake-up call
Nathan Maynard’s great footy play is physically intense, following two Aboriginal players in a country team during the Adam Goodes era
October 2023
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PM condemns abuse directed at Lidia Thorpe – as it happened
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May 2023
‘If I’m only known for football, I’ve failed’: Adam Goodes opens up in rare interview
Statue of Adam Goodes’s ‘iconic’ war cry unveiled by AFL club Sydney Swans
February 2023
Paul Kelly: ‘I never heard back from Shane Warne – maybe he didn’t like the reference to his mother’
The prolific songwriter and huge sports fan has a new compilation packed with songs about famous figures – including Warne, Adam Goodes and Eddie Betts
August 2022
Former AFL great Adam Goodes takes up official football role
Goodes, who grew up playing the round-ball game, is joining a new advisory council overseeing the development of Indigenous football
May 2022
Adam Goodes joins Swans’ AFL premiership reunion in rare public appearance
The dual Brownlow medallist, who has distanced himself from AFL events, attended the SCG for Sydney’s 10-year celebrations
August 2021
‘Stain for our game’: AFL apologises again to Adam Goodes
The AFL’s failure to support Indigenous great Adam Goodes during the 2015 booing of the Sydney Swans champion was a ‘stain’ for the sport, says Richard Goyder
June 2021
Adam Goodes rejects AFL’s Australian Football Hall of Fame offer
Adam Goodes, the AFL’s most decorated Indigenous player, has rejected an offer to be inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame
January 2021
The Vigil: Adam Goodes dances in the spirit of Indigenous warriors at Sydney festival's 26 January reflection
The AFL great paid tribute to his mother, a member of the stolen generations, at the festival’s annual dusk-til-dawn meditation on Australia’s colonial history
August 2020
The week in TV: Unsaid Stories; The Australian Dream; The Great Heist; Mandy – review
Short films inspired by Black Lives Matter showcased a diversity of tensions
June 2020
'Time for the platitudes to stop': Bruce Djite tells Q+A home truths on racism in Australian sport
Former Socceroo says exclusion of Indigenous and women’s voices from the highest levels of sport administration must end
March 2020
Adam Goodes: 'Instead of masking racism, we need to deal with it day-to-day'
Adam Goodes walked away from his stellar AFL career due to the abuse he constantly suffered and is now the subject of a powerful new film
December 2019
From The Final Quarter to Judy & Punch: the best Australian films of 2019
Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awards
August 2019
The Australian Dream review – Adam Goodes doco driven by a clear desire for justice
Stan Grant-penned film about the attacks on the former AFL star is sharp and inspiring, if occasionally frustrating
June 2019
Adam Goodes is a powerful voice to teach us that we have to talk about racism to end racism
June Oscar
Adam Goodes film The Final Quarter to be screened by TV networks Ten and Win
AFL issues unreserved apology for failings over Adam Goodes saga
Adam Goodes film offers AFL – and us all – a chance for reflection
