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Adam Goodes with Hetti Perkins

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Current Australian of the Year Adam Goodes is an AFL champion, Indigenous role model and community-focused leader. He holds an elite place in Australian rules history as a dual Brownlow medallist, dual premiership player, four-time All-Australian Team member and member of the Indigenous Team of the Century and he has represented Australia in the International Rules Series.

Adam Goodes is interviewed by senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the AGNSW Hetti Perkins.