Carlton Supporters Club

I think it's a fair question to ask Gina if she believes in the same things her father said.
I'd also be more than willing to apolgise for my children's behaviour up to a point where they are of an age that they can understand right from wrong and become reponsible for their own actions.
We can feel a responsibity for those close to us if our actions facilitated their wrong doings or we failed to intervene when we could have.

But I just don't belive we are responsible in any way for the actions of our ancestors.
We have no control over those deeds or actions...and in many cases our own beliefs may conflict sharply with theirs.

We can be sorry that things they were responsible for occurred...but we shouldn't bear the guilt.
It's too complex a situation because in our own ancestry there would have been many 'victims' of racism and abuse.

Netball Australia are broke, can't play their players and now we are going to try and build a case that a sponsor is going to get a return on an investment. Hope its not one of your family members that waits in a tent outside a hospital to be admitted to emergency, next time so we can fund netball!

I'm not sure that Newman’s blackface skit could be called comedy.  He was attempting to deride Nicky Winmar for his anti-racist activism and it wasn’t humorous at all. Not that humour excuses racist stereotyping and parodying, whether it’s done by Magda, Newman, Alice Kunek or Justin Trudeau.

Its not a simple question of $15m to netball or 5 hospital beds, theres a bigger picture of encouraging people to have healthy active lifestyles, because that reduces chronic health problems from existing, let along clogging up the hospitals.

Yes, I'm not opposed to the investment for this very reason, but I'm not going to imagine that it is 100% altruistic either, sorry for my cynicism.

Anything that encourages kids to get into activity and off the screens must be a good thing, I write banging away at a keyboard!

My perception is that Newman is THE most insincere person to walk the planet until Trump came along.
Any apology made by him is seen in that light, imho.

Im not so fussed about the screens as such, but the obesity etc.

I think it's mostly a character he plays, in real life I've seen him behave quite the opposite.

My perception is that Newman is THE most insincere person to walk the planet until Trump came along.
Any apology made by him is seen in that light, imho.

Netball has a big following, that's a lot of potential votes for Dan.
Get down to Sunshine Hospital ER in the West of Melbourne, it really needs the 15 million....

And yet, those who know him well and have been through troubled times speak very highly of him for constantly checking in and helping them get through those times of despair.

Years ago as part of pre-season our U18s/19s would have to spend some evenings volunteering with Fr Bob Maguire's mission in and around the city. Mostly KP duty or similar. Celebs would rock up sporadically, some I think looking for cheap publicity. Newman was the only one they crossed paths with who was volunteering on a regular basis.