Footy fans shouldn't be subjected to a politicised grand final. Sport is sport! https://t.co/1uRh4eZ61Z— Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) September 27, 2017
Toxic Tony Abbott says politics and sport shouldn't mix. Yet he is well known as a politician AND as a sportsman (boxing, cycling, swimming, rugby) who regularly mixes both.
Australian Prime Minister Abbott is now a Wallaby : Fox Sports
The NRL asked their supporters who they would like to entertain them at this year's Grand Final, and they asked for Macklemore. One of his set-list of four songs is to be his 2013 hit, Same Love.
The opening lyric line is :
When I was in the 3rd grade I thought that I was gay 'cause I could draw...
This, at the same time as the national Same Sex Marriage Survey, is too much for 'Just Say No' Tony who now, as a politician, intervenes in sport to say that politics and sport shouldn't mix.
In 1976, when FIAPCE produced this art = football = politix = society manifesto, it did seem a bit fanciful. Forty years later, this IS the state of play. Thank you Peter Norman, Nicky Winmar et al!
collection : Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University
FIAPCE -1976-
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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