I'm really glad to hear your on the ticket Mr Dodson,  to further recent Australians understanding of your Indig nations,  & to further enhance your peoples well being.

 

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I don't suppose too many on Demonland will know it but Paddy was a bloody good footballer in his day.

37 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

I don't suppose too many on Demonland will know it but Paddy was a bloody good footballer in his day.

 

I didn't know that.

 

I know one thing,  he's a great man representing our Indigenous nations..  Inspirational.  I hope he is really effective in Parliament if he wins a seat.

I had a bit to do with him when he was working at the CLCl in the eighties. Couldn't quite say why, but I still think of him as one of the most impressive individuals I've ever met.  (I knew about the footy as well - played with some of my cousins when he was at Monivae - funny thing - my cousins are basically rough-and-tumble farm boys, but they all said he was pretty extraordinary as a kid - such gravitas (even though I don't think he had the beard then))

He visited our family home several times in the mid seventies As I remember it when We were all much younger. My sister and her husband were working in aboriginal circles in the Kimberlies at the time, missionaries really. I remember every time I saw Paddy in our family dinning room he had an exotic looking indigenous women hanging off him. That would be oKay except he was the first indegineous Catholic Priest at the time. I can remember asking my Dad what was going on with the women and Patrick and getting the ice cold stare and silence.

 

Back then he was a cool looking Dude and the women he attracted were very exotic. But his religion was not talked about.