I think Waleed Aly nailed it on the head on the Insiders program.
“I think it was the fact that this was some kind of cultural expression that some people found confronting,” Aly said.“There is no mystery about this at all. And it’s not as simple as it being about race, it’s about something else. “It’s about the fact that Australia is generally a very tolerant society until its minorities demonstrate that they don’t know their place. And at that moment, the minute someone in a minority position acts as though they’re not a mere supplicant, then we lose our minds. And we say, ‘No, no, you’ve got to get back in your box here’.
“And that’s why Adam Goodes ruffles feathers. It’s not ‘cos he’s controversial, it’s not ‘cos he’s a provocateur, it’s none of that. It’s because he actually says, I’m going to say something…’ “What happens is the minute an Indigenous man stands up and is something other than compliant, the backlash is huge and it is them who are creating division and destroying our culture. And that is ultimately what we boo. We boo our discomfort.”
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"There is nothing more; but I want nothing more." Christopher Hitchins
