Adam Goodes, Australian Rules Footballer
Rob Bonnet talks to Adam Goodes, an Australian rules footballer. As he nears the end of his sporting career, he's about to enter a new one as a politician.
Extra Time is in Melbourne, Australia, and if there's one sport which can uniquely claim to be home-grown it is Australian Rules Football, a high octane mixture of running, kicking and sometimes brutal mid-air collisions. One of the game's greatest players is Adam Goode. He's of Aboriginal heritage and is the 2014 Australian of the Year - an award recognising not only his sporting talent but his public stand against racism, which was epitomised in 2013 when during a match in Melbourne a teenage girl called Goodes an ape. He had her kicked out of the stadium and, not for the first time, racism in sport and society was at the centre of national debate in Australia. Now as Adam Goodes nears the end of his sporting career is he about to enter a new one as a politician? Rob Bonnet talks to Adam Goodes in Melbourne.
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