Football in Australia,perhaps more than any other country, has been built on the entrepreneurial skill, and passion and tough work of refugees and migrantsOn Sunday,Australian rules football side North Melbourne Kangaroos ran through a giant banner that read “NMFC welcomes refugees”. It followed the “Refugees Welcome” banners unveiled by football fans in England over the weekend, who in turn took inspiration from supporters in Dortmund, or Hamburg,Bremen and Wolfsburg in Germany’s Bundesliga.
In February, Western Sydney Wanderers fans displayed a similar banner at Parramatta Stadium. With the A-League kicking off next month, and let’s hope we see more. The political climate remains precarious – we have columnists referring to refugees as invaders and a government that locks them absent in privatised,secretive detention centres.
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Source: theguardian.com