Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bronson Munro (pictured above) is an infamous sporting racist who, despite being part Maori himself, in 2016 got banned from playing footy for the better part of a year by the Canterbury Rugby Football Union after he called a Fijian born opponent a ‘black c**t’ during a game. Munro showed no repentance for his vile […]
‘Ranga’ is an abbreviation of ‘orangutan’. Used mostly in Australia, the word has gradually spread across the world and has now been adopted to refer to all redheads. It’s thought that is began being used as a derogatory word around the 1990s in Australia school yards. https://gingerparrot.co.uk/ginger-dictionary/ranga-definition/ Bazza McKeown my ginger haired associate and friend […]
My wife’s great-grandfather Turaroi Tokoma, the well muscled man in the picture without the shirt. Tokoma spoke four languages by the age of 12 – German, English, Samoan, Indonesian and 3 native tongues – without ever having been formally taught or going to school. Most Samoans called him a monkey too. Many white skinned people […]
One of the country’s top horse trainers allegedly mocked an Indian stablehand’s accent and told him and other employees to speak proper English while at work. In one instance Stephen McKee even told the other man, “It wouldn’t matter if an Indian died, there would still be a billion left” after he’d nearly been kicked […]
A growing feud between jockeys Bradley Appo and Sariah Champkin threatens to engulf the Toowoomba Turf Club community. Veteran rider Appo and apprentice Champkin have both been suspended following a July 1 trackwork incident. Appo has been banned for three months after Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards determined he was riding dangerously toward Champkin during […]
Lovely bloke this Ollie Robinson. Shame he was born 50 years too late to enjoy apartheid.
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into an incident which occurred at the Toowoomba Turf Club on the morning of the 14 April 2023, whereby a racially derogatory remark was directed toward Jockey Bradley Appo. After taking written and verbal evidence from both Jockey Bradley Appo and Apprentice Sariah Champkin, as […]
Brett Murray is not a real good jockey. In 10 seasons he has ridden just 83 winners, at a strike rate of 4.3%. Kavish Chowdhoory (pictured below) is a good jock, a real good one, far better than B. Murray. He has ridden 188 winners that won double the money that Murray’s have in just […]
There’s clearly two sides to this story. As an artist, I was unhappy to see young activists attacking Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup Cans in the National Gallery of Australia on Wednesday. Society should be breathing a collective sigh of relief that civil disobedience is the chosen modus operandi of the young people who are carrying out these […]
Everything you need to know about the racism in AFL is on show before the investigation into serious allegations of institutional racism and abuse at Hawthorn even begin. Just in case you missed it, a number of indigenous men who played at Hawthorn have made deeply disturbing claims about the way they were treated at […]
