Former prime minister John Howard has slammed the NRL for its support of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, saying it is a “thoroughly bad development”.
“I also adhere to that view that sport and politics don’t mix,” he told Sky News host Paul Murray.
“The idea that a sporting body and a roof organization can speak with authority on behalf of the whole football code is ridiculous. “How do they know what players and individual fans think? And because they can never know, they should just stay out of it and leave it to the individual.”
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