Breaking bad: the booing of Adam Goodes and the politics of the black sports celebrity in Australia

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1. Since 2007, the Australian football league has nominated round nine of the home and away competition as the ‘indigenous’ round. The fixtures for this week celebrate the achievements of the game’s Aboriginal stars.

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Glenn D’Cruz

Glenn D’Cruz teaches drama and cultural studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis (Routledge) and Teaching Postdramatic Theatre (Palgrave), and co-editor of Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture (Palgrave). He publishes widely in performance studies, cultural studies and literary studies.