Palmer plays down Goodes booing row

“Deport him … If you don’t like it leave”.

“Whether eggs and other things help with that… that’s for other people to debate”.

Although his comments are fairly wide-ranging, at the crux of his impassioned thoughts is the controversy surrounding Goodes and “the fact that he has the courage to take a stand where Australia expects him to shut the f*** up and sit”.

No decision has yet been made on a way to support Goodes, named 2014 Australian of the Year, although a show of unity is expected for the round 18 fixtures. “You can only move forward when you acknowledge the truth, and right now this country has a problem with Aboriginal people”, she said.

Few issues in recent memory, in sport or elsewhere for that matter, have been as divisive as the persistent booing of Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes.

This is what James Packer said: “To hear people booing him is something that I’m ashamed of as an Australian”. “It’s frustrating, but I guess it’s part of society as a whole”.

AUSTRALIANS must remain hopeful in the face of abuse of AFL player Adam Goodes and continue to fight for reconciliation, Noel Pearson says.

OK, so we’re all in agreement that it’s definitely not racially motivated, yeah?

I have always admired Adam Goodes. Dodd said.

Confronting this mentality is difficult-its perpetrators hide behind weasel words and declarations of innocent intent (screaming “get back to the zoo” at an Aboriginal player is not, apparently, intended to be racist). They’re not really knowing why. Is it racist? Yes I think it is. Yet other players do that and don’t get the same treatment. The first Australians, who have lived on the continent for at least 40,000 years, constitute 9 percent of the professional players in the top competition, the Australian Football League, despite making up just 3 percent of the total population. It’s racial abuse to an extent, I believe, for sure.

“The booing emanates because he’s not a quiet indigenous person”.

The race row came to a head last week when Lewis Jetta, Goodes Sydney Swans team-mate, was criticised after performing an Indigenous war cry dance after scoring a goal, which included throwing an imaginary spear at the crowd when he was booed.

Though I don’t follow the game, we know this from the histories of two of our great champions and moral leaders, Charles Perkins and John Moriarty who, as stolen kids housed in Adelaide, were asked to use their abilities in AFL and ultimately refused, because they were forced to dress in a different shed to the whites.

“It’s because Adam has spoken out and he will consistently speak out because he’s a proud Aboriginal man and he wants to speak about what’s happened in the past”.

“I feel frustration and disappointment when I see how Goodes is treated”.

In a nation that prides itself on a “fair go”, the emotionally correct response is clear.

Swans club management has labelled the booing as racist.

Dodd said McMaster would hopefully learn a hard lesson.

“People say, ‘Is he thin-skinned because he gets booed now and again?’ When you are in that situation you live it 24-7 …”

The Richmond AFL club will wear a special shirt usually reserved for the league’s indigenous week in their match this weekend to support Goodes.