It was suggested there have been good traditions and bad ones, and the bad ones tend to be thrown out after a time. "The name, whether you define it as aboriginal people or not, that isn't what it's about. It's about the team and its history," he replied.

[Dean Harris] said he doesn't make decisions about names. "If we had a controversy over the name, we'd deal with it. We adopt the attitude if it's not broken, don't fix it."

"It's promoting sport. It's promoting aboriginal people. It's all positive," he continued.