Brent Naden #256

GNR4LIFE said:
I’ve been out of the loop for a month, so when I clicked on our line up on Tuesday and saw his name in the reserves list, I assumed it was a glitch. Funny coincidence we were playing the Dogs. Good addition, our outside backs are puss and they need all the help they can get.
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PJ is a big Jordan Peterson fan
And he's ethnic to boot lool
 
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Rusty said:
a LITTLE BIGGER than that mate... It stretchers from,
Albury-W to the south
Hay to the West
Bathurst / Mudgee to the East
Nyngan to the North
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Yes I know that, I oftern meet and have a chat to one of the elders, great guy and was a very good football player.

I found this article in the local rag about Jimmy.




STORYTELLER: Kalmadyne Goombridge with photos of his family from their days on the Namoi Reserve. Photo: PHILL MURRAY 070716pjim

STORYTELLER: Kalmadyne Goombridge with photos of his family from their days on the Namoi Reserve. Photo: PHILL MURRAY 070716pjim

WHEN local Aboriginal elder Kalmadyne Goombridge came into this world he was a hair's breadth away from being born in a rowboat on a flooded river at Walgett.
His family lived on the riverbank in a two-bedroom tin humpy on the Namoi Reserve - the place where the Barwon and Namoi rivers meet.

When the river flooded, Kalmadyne’s mum was forced to row to the town of Walgett to give birth to her son.
He was the seventh child of Florence Walford and Richard Beale, gentle-natured people.

Kalmadyne’s dad was one of the stolen generations - haunted by his time at the notorious Kinchela Boys Home near Kempsey.
He was never able to speak about the mistreatment he experienced there.
“I was born in the 1950s, not long after the Dreamtime was destroyed,” Kalmadyne said. “It’s warming to know I lived this long to tell my story.
“My spirit soul is free. My mind is free.”
He said the reserve where he grew up was home, and it was beautiful.
“I didn’t give a lot of thought to the government ways then. The welfare people would come and we would tell mum ‘They won't catch us’,” he chuckled.
And they didn’t. Many, of course, weren’t so lucky.
Kalmadyne said his dad, who was a groom at one of the stations in Walgett, took the family off the reserve in the 1960s when he built a three-bedroom house in town.
His boss put up the security.
“He was only doing what he thought was best for us, but we were quite comfortable and happy living on the reserve,” Kalmadyne said.
“Racism was very strong in Walgett. The term ‘Abo’ was used a lot and if any white people openly befriended the blacks they were labelled Abo lovers.
“There was one old bloke in town who used to chase the little blackfellas with a stock whip. You couldn’t do anything about it.
“Now when I look back at all the good white people who tried to help us, I realise they were very brave.”
Kalmadyne came to Bathurst to play football and work.
His first job was with a local plumber. Over the years he took jobs digging ditches, as a wool porter, at the golf course, labouring on council, as a truck driver and as a warehouse manager.
Kalmadyne, who was known as Jimmy Beale in those days, coached junior rugby league players for 16 years. He also coached a couple of basketball teams and was involved in cricket.
“You’ve got to be happy with whatever hand the creator deals you,” he said.
“I think this stood me in good stead for what I am doing today because I am a good communicator.
“I tell stories and write poems about my culture. That fulfils me. I am so contented.”
Kalmadyne is a member of the Bathurst Wiradyuri and Aboriginal Community Elders group which has been engaging with Bathurst Regional Council.
“Our songlines have been broken, but with this elders group we’ve jumped back on,” he said.
Kalmadyne said the elders group is promoting Aboriginal culture in schools and at CSU – the first time an elders group has engaged with the university.
Group members are teaching young Aboriginal people to be proud of their culture.
“The spirits have tested me every step of the way. Being a fair-skinned Aboriginal is a scar I have had to carry,” Kalmadyne said.
“This life is our university. I am still learning and loving it.

“I am proud to be Wiradyuri. It's sacred to me. I am proud to be an Australian Aboriginal who grew up on the Namoi Reserve.
“White and black, we are all one mob.”
 
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pawsandclaws1 said:
Celtic?😂 If you use Anglos in parts of Belfast or even Southern Ireland you might upset the locals.
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The whole British / Irish race identifiers are meaningless anyway - the peoples of Britain and Ireland are so intermixed and mongreled; apart from generally being light-skinned, that to claim a single heritage or race type is a total joke.

All the tribes that pushed West and South to Britain over hundreds of years, then beat up against the Atlantic coast of Ireland and flowed back East again - Angles, Saxons, Normans, Nordic peoples, Britons, Romans etc. etc.

About as non-pure in racial origin you can get, masked by the false equation of "similarity by whiteness". If that were true, those of us with British and Irish roots would be almost indistinguishable from white Eastern Europeans, which is of course absolutely not true.
 
jirskyr said:
The whole British / Irish race identifiers are meaningless anyway - the peoples of Britain and Ireland are so intermixed and mongreled; apart from generally being light-skinned, that to claim a single heritage or race type is a total joke.

All the tribes that pushed West and South to Britain over hundreds of years, then beat up against the Atlantic coast of Ireland and flowed back East again - Angles, Saxons, Normans, Nordic peoples, Britons, Romans etc. etc.

About as non-pure in racial origin you can get, masked by the false equation of "similarity by whiteness". If that were true, those of us with British and Irish roots would be almost indistinguishable from white Eastern Europeans, which is of course absolutely not true.
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Funny that the Irish were frowned upon by the British in Australia till the "wogs" from Europe came to Australia and then they merged.

Dad says that Irish Australians in the 50s were very racist against him when he came to Australia and against the English and vise versa.

Reading sports history and all the Masons v Catholic discrimination. Took a while before a Catholic (Irish Australian) were accepted as equals in politics business and sports.
 
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TigerJunior4 said:
Yeah I do and I’m sick of having people say that we go walkabout all the time to be frank mate
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stryker 69 said:
You brought race to the argument and made the link between his aboriginality and the terminology “walkabout” to be a negative context, which did not seem to be the intention of @matchball.
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It’s a racist term you absolute muppet and it’s offensive. It shouldn’t be used on the forum or in any other area of life.

I’ve seen it used negatively against us and it’s demeaning. It implies we’re naturally flakey or inconsistent or irresponsible when we’re not.

I’m not the one brining race into it. Matchball did that in his initial post.
 
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