There is Down Under a hashtag that shows just how popular, how transcendent, Patty Mills is in his native land of Australia.
#PattyForPM ... as in Patty Mills for Prime Minister. The first Aboriginal to carry his nation’s flag into an Olympic stadium and the captain/leader of Australia’s national team who brought home the bronze in Tokyo, Mills popularity is raging from his home in the Torres Islands in the far north to Tasmania in the deep south.
In an article for the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Konrad Marshall quotes Mills as saying he has no interest in political life but retains his right to use his voice on the rights to indigenous people and other broader issues.