Part-Aboriginal footballer, Adam Goodes has shamefully abused his position of Australian of the Year, using his soapbox to vilify our past and preach division. Commenting on a the film, Utopia, by another un-Australian, John Pilger, the Swans captain denounced “our very dark past, a brutal history of dispossession, theft and slaughter”. “Europeans, and the governments that have run our country, have raped, killed and stolen,” he wrote in Fairfax newspapers. Goodes attacked Australians who resisted this lurid characterisation of our past: “The people who benefited most from those rapes, those killings and that theft … turn away in disgust when someone seeks to expose it.” This is amazing hypocrisy from a man who is as much European as he is Aboriginal. Goodes was born in South Australia, to Lisa May and Graham Goodes. Through his mother, Goodes is of Adnyamathanha and Narungga descent while he has English, Irish and Scottish…