Adam Goodes, 2014 Australian of the Year, attends the Australia Day citizenship ceremony in Canberra, 26 January 2014

Adam Goodes is a champion Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer. Born in 1980, Goodes played for the Sydney Swans for his whole career, from 1999 to 2015. He won two premierships with the team in 2005 and 2012, and twice won the game’s Brownlow Medal (2003 and 2006).

Goodes was chosen as Australian of the Year for 2014. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Goodes stood ‘for decency in national life’.