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After a week on remand in Silverwater, Former Prime Minister Uncle Tony X has today finally made bail, after strings were pulled in the South Sydney Rabbitohs headquarters.
Last weekend, the prominent Northern Beaches elder was thrown in gaol after failing to get a taxi home after the South Sydney Rabbitohs historic win against the St George Illawarra Dragons.
However, activist groups have worked hard to free Uncle Tony, who was awaiting charge for public nuisance and a log of unpaid parking fines, for fear that he might suffer punctured internal organs and die in custody, as Indigenous Australians are 18 times more likely to.
Today’s news comes quite welcome to the Member Of Warringah, who’s come to experience many of the hurdles faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since his appointment as the Special Envoy to Indigenous Affairs to the Morrison Government.
These hurdles include constant police profiling, preventable health issues – and the expectation to be a bunnies supporter.
The latter, while considered an ailment to many Australians, has actually come as a saving grace for the Former Prime Minister after he was bailed out of prison this morning thanks to the intervention of a powerful figure from deep within the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Rabbitohs owner Russell Crowe is believed to have posted the $1m bail required for Uncle Tony to await trial outside of prison.
Sources close to the Gladiator star say Uncle Tony X will be arriving in a helicopter at tonight’s match between the Rabbitohs and their long-time rivals, the Sydney Roosters. Providing he doesn’t do a runner.
Rumours have swirled today that Uncle Tony might get day release tomorrow to take part in this weekend’s Koori Knockout tournament in Dubbo. More to come.
