The Pitfalls of Virtue Signalling

An NRL Club was telling Aussies to vote 'Yes' while its majority owner was funding the 'No' campaign!

An indigenous activist is outraged after it was revealed that part owner of the Melbourne Storm rugby league club Brett Ralph was a large financial backer of the ‘No’ campaign.

Give me a moment. I need to stop laughing before I can continue writing.

Okay, sorry about that. I’m good to go again.

No wait. Still laughing.

The Storm board member and majority shareholder donated $75,000 to Advance Australia which spearheaded the ‘No’ campaign at the same time that the Storm was publicly urging people to vote ‘Yes’.

Well, that revelation was enough to cause Indigenous rapper Adam Briggs to break his week of silence and demand that Melbourne Storm choose between Ralph (who owns 20 per cent of the club) and its Indigenous players.

Briggs has reportedly written a letter threatening to cancel his life-long support of the club in protest at Brett Ralph (pictured below) using his private money privately.

Briggs thundered …

“Brett Ralph did not just vote No - he sponsored No.”

Yep. Apparently Ralph used his own ballot paper and his own money in a way that displeased an Indigenous activist.

Fly some more flags at half mast!