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Richard Seager
Apr 02, 2022
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I see that Jeff Kennett (former Liberal premier of Victoria) is in trouble for a fairly innocuous comment that he made to a Hawthorn player’s wife (Kennett is the President of the Hawthorn Football Club);

There’s some sort of woke action group involved, I havn’t looked into that too much and Kennett has indicated that he is a fan of golliwog dolls in the past, which may be questionable but although I’ve never been one of Kennett’s fans the idea that he’s racist is verging on insanity in my view. I’m always happy to be wrong though, so if you have some evidence then post them ⤵ in the comments. In the meantime it seems that he is being libelled for questioning Shannyn’s fashion sense in a way that those of us not in our 20s find amusing even if the 20 yos don’t. The Hawthorn club has issued an apology and have said that there’s no place for racism in the club. Fine, but give us an example first, Hawthorn. I think Kennett has a right to sue over this one.

And in the meantime I’m going to …

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