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“If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, HOW AM I MEANT TO REPRESENT A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EVEN REPRESENT ME.”
Liz Cambage shared the above words on Instagram in response to a Jockey ad that featured Australia’s Olympic and Paralympic ambassadors and an Australian Olympic Team (AOC) promotional Instagram post. All the athletes in the Jockey advertisement are white. The AOC photo included nine white athletes and one Indigenous athlete.
The lack of inclusion understandably aroused the ire of Cambage, who has spoken openly about how she struggled with her identity as a mixed-race young woman growing up in a whitewashed Australia. On Instagram, she further wrote: