"To be clear, this had nothing to do with her sentiments. It DID have to do with the ghastly accent NZ's have cultivated. Now, bang on about that being racist. That should occupy your tiny brains."
Unfortunately, it is not the first time that Newman has said objectionable things.
In 2009, Newman compared a Malaysian man to a monkey, saying he was "not long out of the forest", while he has on multiple occasions come under fire for perceived homophobic comments.
In 2004, he argued that Melbourne didn't need "mincing, lisping, parading people wandering all over the country", while in 2014 he was called "homophobic" by his co-hosts after describing American footballer Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend as an "annoyingly gratuitous act".
The same year, he exposed himself to a national television audience on the Footy Show – somehow not the first time he had done that, while in 1999 he donned blackface on television.
Newman's latest furore even comes just weeks after he was blasted for a "disgusting" stunt where he dressed up as a woman and made a distasteful joke about "transitioning".
In a video posed on Twitter alongside AFL journalist Mike Sheehan and former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas, Newman was wearing heavy make-up, a white hat and a scarf.
"I think I've run my race as an older male, and I'm thinking of transitioning," the 73-year-old said.
"I think I could feel comforted by being an older female, and it'll work well because my partner is thinking of turning herself into a boy. It doesn't change we're still man and woman."
Newman said he was "going to clean up on world titles as a woman, an older woman" when asked if he was going to compete in the Olympics.
Newman was widely slammed and after the backlash Thomas said he asked for the video to be taken down, but argued Newman was trying to highlight "those men that transition to women for personal gain in sporting events".
Hannah Mouncey, a trans woman who fought to play in the AFLW, led the criticism against the video.
- With news.com.au
