Jetty Road Weekly Blog 22/9/25
- jettyroad09
- Sep 22
- 4 min read
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From The Archives
Andrew In Wonderland
The more things change. The more they stay the same. A mere 14 years ago: before Gillon Mclachlan and Andrew Dillon – Andrew Demetriou, then AFL CEO, was trotting out the old tropes of a divided Tasmania as the reason why we did not deserve our own team. Going by some readers comments in The Age on the recent planning commission report opposing the stadium not much has changed. Mendicant, backward and basket case were some of the more choice descriptions of a state they have probably never visited. Now we really do have a divided Tasmania all because of the handiwork of the soulless MBA corporate bullies at the AFL.
Andrew In Wonderland
Published June 2011 in the Examiner
Dear Mr Demetriou you need to get to know us Tasmanians a little better. For a start we really do have two heads: Northie and Southie. In the South we have Alice in Wonderland. In the North we have the one horned, one-eyed, flying purple people eater. We are a constituency of forest nymphs and gnomes, governed by the Queen of Hearts and serviced by the sugar plum fairies. Mr Demetriou when we say heads we win and heads we lose. It means exactly what we say it means.
Song: Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE
Humiliation
“And in the hour of greatest slaughter the great avenger is being born.” Paul Kelly - Bradman
What is true in sport can be doubly so in politics. I was at the 2012 Grand Final when the Swans still had their grit. They had just beaten Hawthorn and Luke Hodge was giving a speech as the defeated captain. Hodgey was banged up and in truth with a bit more accuracy in front of goal they would have cleaned us up. It was a gripping match and I was standing among a throng of Swan supporters near the boundary. We were jubilant and we were exhausted. Amidst our mob was a mouthy young supporter rubbishing Hodge as he spoke. All of us without exception told him to shut up. Explained to him that such a win was against worthy opponents and he was out of line.
Two years later I witnessed the Hawks go after Adam Goodes. They were feral and I have never forgotten. Some of my best mates are Hawks supporters and I admire their team greatly but the memory of the deeply offensive behaviour of their supporters lingers.
Professor Ghassan Hage from Melbourne Uni talks about memory of humiliation being a source of the actions of subsequent generations in wreaking humiliation on the former humiliator or other perceived enemies. He cites Germany and the rise of the Nazis after WW1. The Zionist extremists after the holocaust and the current humiliation of the Palestinians. Trump and his harnessing of the humiliation felt by the rust belts, neo liberalism, Vietnam, 9/11 and the victims of globalisation.
It is no long bow to consider the sledging, that rose to a crescendo in Australian cricket before the humiliation of sandpaper gate, had its roots in the Bodyline tactics against Bradman in particular and the Australian batsmen in general, in the 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia.
Hage points to Mandela as one example of a leader who managed to persuade his people not to engage in the humiliation of their former humiliators. South Africa is not without its problems but one can easily imagine a far worse scenario without the likes of Mandela, Bishop Tutu, Albie Sachs et al.
Back to sport. Craig McRae the Collingwood coach strikes me as a someone who understands at a deeper level than most AFL coaches and commentators, the damaging role of humiliation and derogatory rhetoric and of the need to speak against it.
A fascinating interview with David Marr and Professor Hage. “Humiliation the Nasty Edge of Politics: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/humiliation-in-australia-culture-ghassan-hage/105785526
Song: Bradman - Paul Kelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjZHfEIEJ54
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