Senator Hanson-Young has called on the AFL to dump slur-merchant Snoop Dogg as the AFL Grand Final entertainment, and instead let an Aussie artist take the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find footage of her speech in parliament here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens spokesperson for the arts, Sarah Hanson-Young:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe irony is not lost on many AFL fans that just last week they suspended Izak Rankine for using a homophobic slur, yet Snoop Dogg is set to get $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe AFL is a cultural institution in Australia, and cultural institutions should be backing homegrown talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt a time when Aussie artists are copping the brunt of the cost-of-living crisis, we need proper investment in our music industry. \u201cWith over 6 million people tuning into the AFL Grand Final year on year, this is a prime time slot to platform homegrown talent. It\u2019s time to let Aussie artists rock the \u2018G\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI urge the AFL to have the guts to dump slur-merchant Snoop Dogg and let an Aussie artist rock the stage instead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Hanson-Young has called on the AFL to dump slur-merchant Snoop Dogg as the AFL Grand Final entertainment, and instead let an Aussie artist take the stage. Find footage of her speech in parliament here. Greens spokesperson for the arts, Sarah Hanson-Young: \u201cThe irony is not lost on many AFL fans that just last week they … Continue reading “Senator Hanson-Young calls on the AFL to dump slur-merchant Snoop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34507,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions\/34507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIf it\u2019s an Aussie game, it should be an Aussie artist playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n