Kingston Koorie Mob

Wominjeka  the Kingston Koorie Mob had a Koorie Day on Thursday 8th September. Participating in the Point to Be Proud program with Nathan Lovett Murray and Aunty K. It was at the Danny Frawley Centre at St Kilda F C. 

Nathan Lovett-Murray, AFL legend and St Kilda Football Club’s Indigenous Programs Coordinator, is the creator of the club’s Point and Be Proud education program, and Executive Producer of award-winning documentary The Ripple Effect. 

Point and Be Proud is designed to raise awareness of the ongoing and lasting effects of racism on individual mental health and wellbeing. 

Program sessions was structured around a version of The Ripple Effect, which explores racism in Australia through the eyes of Saints legend Nicky Winmar and other prominent athletes of colour. The aim of using the powerful documentary in this way is to help young people develop their understanding of the impact of racism, and increase their confidence to call it out.  

Mr Lovett-Murray, who played 145 AFL games for Essendon Football Club and has connections to the Gunditjamara, Yorta Yorta and Wamba Wamba tribes in Victoria, said the program had huge potential. 

“As a boy, I remember thinking Nicky Winmar was a black superman and I wanted to take his story into schools. The message I’m delivering to students is ‘you can be a Nicky Winmar and stand up to racism” 

The Mob discussed what it was like being like a years ago and in today AFL. 

Before lunch was time spent playing,  Marngrook ( traditional Aboriginal ball game played for millennia in what is now western Victoria -- provided the first lawmakers of football with some of the fundamentals of the game millions know and love as Australian rules football.)

Mr Robinson