Aboriginal Australian Football League (AFL) footballer Adam Goodes holds the Commonwealth Games' Queen's Baton at Farm Cove in Sydney's Botanical Gardens January 26, 2006. REUTERS/Will Burgess
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Months of relentless booing of Aboriginal football great and anti-racism campaigner Adam Goodes has ignited an uncomfortable public debate in Australia about race and how the country treats its indigenous citizens.
Goodes, a 35-year-old veteran of the popular Australian Football League (AFL) who was named Australian of the Year in 2014 for his rights work off the field, has twice won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player.
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