EXCLUSIVE: Why Johnathan Thurston’s trademark headgear gesture meant so much more – Wide World of Sports

To NRL fans, it was a heartwarming gesture from Johnathan Thurston.
But to Stan Grant, it was much more.
A kind, generous act.
But also powerful. A transcendent act of reconciliation.
“You’d see JT after a game take his headgear, which was always the Indigenous-design headgear, and find a kid in the crowd and give it to the kid. That’s a very simple gesture but that changes people’s hearts and minds. That’s how you connect with people,” Grant, the leading broadcaster and Indigenous voice, to…

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