Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you’re a Socceroos fan and watched the ABC’s coverage over the last week or so, you’ve probably come to one conclusion: The Australian national football team literally has some kind of god in its midst.
This topic has obviously struck a nerve with many of you, and I want to say a quick thank you to everyone who sent in links, articles, and thoughts after the last video. It turns out the national broadcaster was only just getting started.
Behold, the Chosen One: Nestory Irankunda.
Sure, the 20-year-old scored a goal in Australia’s opening match against Türkiye, which is great, but at the end of the day, he’s just a guy who kicks a ball around a field.
Connor Metcalfe is also a guy who kicks a ball around a field, and he also scored an incredible goal to seal the win, but in the eyes of the ABC’s commentary apparatus, that goal effectively didn’t happen. The only person who counts is Nestory Irankunda.
Why? Well, I think we all know why, but this ABC headline makes it clearer: “From refugee to Socceroos star: The grassroots club that gave Irankunda a go.”
Yes, because he was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, in the ABC’s eyes, he is more important than Connor Metcalfe.
Connor also has a history, as reported by the SMH: “As a teen, Connor was ‘half the size of everybody else’. On Sunday, he made history.” Or this one from the Newcastle Herald: “‘This one’s for you’: the cute school beginnings of the Hunter’s World Cup hero.”
Yes, he too had an interesting history, but in the parallel universe of our unbiased ABC, Connor’s history is the wrong history. Not to mention he’s got the wrong skin colour.
Obviously, that’s what we’re all thinking. Do you think if Nestory Irankunda was a white South African whose farming family left the country because of racial violence and became a star Socceroo, the ABC would be aggressively “telling his story”?
Not a chance.
Just to be clear, I’m not here to bash Nestory. He’s just playing football, and he’s certainly not the sports editor of the ABC.
This video is entirely focused on the national broadcaster’s desperate obsession with identity politics, where players are treated less like athletes and more like political props to be divided into categories of who matters and who doesn’t.
In a recent article on the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website of all places, because nothing screams deep moral philosophy quite like a 20-year-old taking a shot on goal, they proudly declared: “When Nestory Irankunda scored, we were Australia: What the World Cup tells us about multiculturalism.”
Yes, when a former refugee scores in the World Cup, you better believe our ABC will dedicate an entire 3,000-word essay to explaining how diversity is our strength and multiculturalism is the absolute best.
And finally, we have this article from our public broadcaster: “How is the most culturally diverse World Cup ever being received in Trump’s America?”
It celebrates black culture, it dumps on Donald Trump, and it checks every single progressive box you could possibly imagine. What else could you expect from a taxpayer-funded activist hub?
Of course, they feature everyone’s favourite new player, Nestory Irankunda, explicitly making sure to point out that he was born in a Tanzanian refugee camp. Because wow, I don’t think any of us have ever heard that detail before. Truly, thank you for bringing it up for the one-hundredth time.
Just below, they note that “The Socceroos squad includes four former refugees, and more than half of the 26 players have different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.”
Right. Because when I tune in to watch an international sporting event, I’m not actually looking to see tactical execution, athletic endurance, or high-level football strategy. No, what I really want is a comprehensive demographic audit of the playing roster so I can accurately calculate the team’s progressive equity score.
So what have we actually learnt from all this? We’ve learnt that our public broadcaster is entirely obsessed with skin colour. We’ve learnt that Nestory Irankunda is the media’s chosen one, while Connor Metcalfe—who achieved the exact same thing on the pitch—is completely ignored because he is a white bloke from Newcastle who didn’t grow up in a refugee camp.
The ultimate irony is that in their desperate rush to lecture us about “social cohesion” and how the Socceroos jersey “belongs to everyone,” the ABC is doing the exact thing they accuse their critics of doing. They are dividing the team, and the country, into arbitrary identity categories of who matters and who doesn’t.
They foolishly think that hyper-focusing on race will somehow fix division, when in reality, they are actively exacerbating it. But the message behind it all is crystal clear: you will celebrate mass immigration whether you voted for it or not.
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
If you’re a Socceroos fan and watched the ABC’s coverage over the last week or so, you’ve probably come to one conclusion: The Australian national football team literally has some kind of god in its midst.
This topic has obviously struck a nerve with many of you, and I want to say a quick thank you to everyone who sent in links, articles, and thoughts after the last video. It turns out the national broadcaster was only just getting started.
Behold, the Chosen One: Nestory Irankunda.
Sure, the 20-year-old scored a goal in Australia’s opening match against Türkiye, which is great, but at the end of the day, he’s just a guy who kicks a ball around a field.
Connor Metcalfe is also a guy who kicks a ball around a field, and he also scored an incredible goal to seal the win, but in the eyes of the ABC’s commentary apparatus, that goal effectively didn’t happen. The only person who counts is Nestory Irankunda.
Why? Well, I think we all know why, but this ABC headline makes it clearer: “From refugee to Socceroos star: The grassroots club that gave Irankunda a go.”
Yes, because he was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, in the ABC’s eyes, he is more important than Connor Metcalfe.
Connor also has a history, as reported by the SMH: “As a teen, Connor was ‘half the size of everybody else’. On Sunday, he made history.” Or this one from the Newcastle Herald: “‘This one’s for you’: the cute school beginnings of the Hunter’s World Cup hero.”
Yes, he too had an interesting history, but in the parallel universe of our unbiased ABC, Connor’s history is the wrong history. Not to mention he’s got the wrong skin colour.
Obviously, that’s what we’re all thinking. Do you think if Nestory Irankunda was a white South African whose farming family left the country because of racial violence and became a star Socceroo, the ABC would be aggressively “telling his story”?
Not a chance.
Just to be clear, I’m not here to bash Nestory. He’s just playing football, and he’s certainly not the sports editor of the ABC.
This video is entirely focused on the national broadcaster’s desperate obsession with identity politics, where players are treated less like athletes and more like political props to be divided into categories of who matters and who doesn’t.
In a recent article on the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website of all places, because nothing screams deep moral philosophy quite like a 20-year-old taking a shot on goal, they proudly declared: “When Nestory Irankunda scored, we were Australia: What the World Cup tells us about multiculturalism.”
Yes, when a former refugee scores in the World Cup, you better believe our ABC will dedicate an entire 3,000-word essay to explaining how diversity is our strength and multiculturalism is the absolute best.
And finally, we have this article from our public broadcaster: “How is the most culturally diverse World Cup ever being received in Trump’s America?”
It celebrates black culture, it dumps on Donald Trump, and it checks every single progressive box you could possibly imagine. What else could you expect from a taxpayer-funded activist hub?
Of course, they feature everyone’s favourite new player, Nestory Irankunda, explicitly making sure to point out that he was born in a Tanzanian refugee camp. Because wow, I don’t think any of us have ever heard that detail before. Truly, thank you for bringing it up for the one-hundredth time.
Just below, they note that “The Socceroos squad includes four former refugees, and more than half of the 26 players have different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.”
Right. Because when I tune in to watch an international sporting event, I’m not actually looking to see tactical execution, athletic endurance, or high-level football strategy. No, what I really want is a comprehensive demographic audit of the playing roster so I can accurately calculate the team’s progressive equity score.
So what have we actually learnt from all this? We’ve learnt that our public broadcaster is entirely obsessed with skin colour. We’ve learnt that Nestory Irankunda is the media’s chosen one, while Connor Metcalfe—who achieved the exact same thing on the pitch—is completely ignored because he is a white bloke from Newcastle who didn’t grow up in a refugee camp.
The ultimate irony is that in their desperate rush to lecture us about “social cohesion” and how the Socceroos jersey “belongs to everyone,” the ABC is doing the exact thing they accuse their critics of doing. They are dividing the team, and the country, into arbitrary identity categories of who matters and who doesn’t.
They foolishly think that hyper-focusing on race will somehow fix division, when in reality, they are actively exacerbating it. But the message behind it all is crystal clear: you will celebrate mass immigration whether you voted for it or not.
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
