Australian cricketers proudly announced yesterday that they will begin every game this summer with a barefoot circle ceremony that will not improve even one Aboriginal person’s life.
A Cricket Australia wokesperson said the empty gesture would serve to signal the team’s commitment to demonstrating their intention to doing something that would do nothing to change anything for anybody in Australia.
“We can probably put our hands up and say we haven’t done enough virtue signalling in the past, but we believe standing barefoot in a circle will go a long way toward rectifying this,” he said.
“In Australia, we think the most marginalised...
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