Aussie musicians Peter Garrett and The Jezabels‘ Sam Lockwood have helped launch a new ‘With GOODESY’ charity t-shirt to show their support for AFL player Adam Goodes and to raise money for his GO Foundation, which helps empower young Indigenous Australians.
The idea for the t-shirt spawned from Lockwood, who was dismayed at the continued booing of Goodes, the 2014 Australian Of The Year, during recent Sydney Swans AFL games.
Lockwood and his friends set out to do something about it, and approached Torres Strait Islander artist Zac Bennett-Brook and designer Matt Roden, who have created the ‘With GOODESY’ t-shirt’s proud design.
Mr Bennett-Brook says the design features circular meeting place symbols. “Throughout life we meet people at different places such as work, sport games and events, through hobbies etc. and from there we form connection and relationships with people that is that is represented through the meeting place symbol,” Mr Bennett-Brook says.
“From those groups we make other connections in life which is represented through the large dots that connect each of the different groups/meeting places.”
The ‘With GOODESY’ t-shirts are currently available for purchase at the With GOODESY website, with all proceeds going to Adam Goodes’ and Michael O’Loughlin’s GO Foundation, which works with young Indigenous Australians through quality education and mentoring.
The t-shirt’s creators are encouraging those who purchase a t-shirt to send photos of them rockin’ their Ts to goodesy@gmail.com to be part of an online slideshow as part of the With GOODESY campaign.
Aside from the t-shirt, Aboriginal organisation YARN is also hosting some public yarn circles to facilitate conversations on racism and culture in Australia. For more information on the yarn circles, head to the YARN website.
