Goannas going to the international stage

THE Sunshine Coast Goannas Women will be a part of the curtain raiser game for the inaugural International Festival of Indigenous Football on July 1.

Following the Goannas match against the Sunshine Coast Wanderers, the women’s Australian Indigenous Koalas team will play the Aotearoa Maori women, ending the day with the men’s Australian Indigenous Roos team playing the Aotearoa Maori men.

Sunshine Coast Goannas President Wayne Alberts spoke about how important this game is to himself and the Goannas, both in the Goannas

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BeeGee’s first

THE BeeGee’s premier women and under 23 women’ teams celebrated the club’s first Pride round on June 16 in their games against Nambour Yandina United.

The club made it a special a night, from ordering colourful Pride-themed jerseys, to providing rainbow cupcakes and painting the field rainbow.

BeeGee’s premier women coach, Amy Higgins, said herself, the club secretary and a few of the senior women planned this round to help promote inclusivity in the sport and they hoped to see it grow next year. “It’s important to have rounds like this because in this day and age there’s a vast range of people with different backgrounds,” she said.

“There’s a lot of young kids coming through that probably don’t know who they are yet so it’s really nice for them to see the senior teams doing that.” women’s team and those selected in the Australian Indigenous squads. a cagey southpaw so we’ve been doing a fair bit of southpaw work, he’s got good power and I’ve been working to debate that,” he said.

“It’s awesome the Goannas women were picked to play, its special and its good to be in a curtain raiser with the Maori and Indigenous teams playing afterwards,” he said.

“The women are honoured, they will be looked at too by the coaches for the Australian, team so it’s a special moment all round for everyone.

“Come fight night there will be some unbelievable fireworks in the ring.”

Wayne is also the manager of the Australian Indigenous Koalas women’s team, and spoke about how all three indigenous teams will prepare for their respective games.

“The Australia Indigenous teams go into camp on Wednesday, it’s a 10-day camp down in the Gold Coast, we will be having two training sessions a day and working up to the games,” he said.

“The Goannas girls they’ve just been playing for their local clubs, and they’ll

Amy also said there was a lot of the community watching the games to support their cause, and that the club had received nothing but positive feedback.

“We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on our social media, and all the girls were taking photos and posting it everywhere, we are quite proud of the round and what it stands for so it’s nice to see and a lot of positive things will come out of it,” she said.

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A BEAUTIFUL fairy appeared one day to an asylum seeker claimant outside the Centrelink Offices.

“My good man,” the fairy said, “I’ve been told by Albo to grant you three wishes, since you’ve just arrived in Australia with your wife and seven children - All costs to be borne by Australian tax payers.”

The man said to the fairy ‘Well, in Sri Lanka where I come from we don’t have good teeth, so I want new teeth, with maybe a lot of gold in them.”

The fairy looked at the man’s almost toothless grin and PING!

The Asylum Seeker had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!

“What else?” asked the fairy, “two more wishes to go!” The Asylum Seeker refugee claimant now got bolder “I need a big house with a three car garage on the Gold Coast with eight bedrooms, and a Gold Visa card in each room for my family and the rest of my refugee relatives who still live in Sri Lanka. I want to bring them all over here”

PING ! - In the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ, and a sparkling swimming pool and a BMW, full of his nephews playing their music.

“One more wish left for you,” said the fairy, waving her wand.

The Asylum Seeker refugee claimant really decided to go for broke now and said “I want to be Australian with Australian clothes instead of the rags and shawl, and I want to have white skin like the Australians.”

PING! - The man was transformed, wearing worn out Stubbies shorts, a dirty Bonds T-shirt and a greasy terry-towel hat.

He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.

“What happened to my new teeth?” he wailed.

“Where is my new house?

Where’s my Visa Gold Card?

Where is my BMW?”

The fairy said “Tough luck.

Now that you are Australian, you’re entitled to nothing, just like the rest of us,”

And she disappeared........