AFL tells clubs to have Indigenous staff present at pre-draft interviews

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The AFL has asked clubs to have an Indigenous specialist present when they interview First Nations youngsters at the upcoming draft combine. | JakeNiallTHEAGE

, the AFL told the clubs that they should have their Indigenous player development manager – or another First Nations member of staff – on the interview panel for Indigenous draft prospects.

The AFL also advised the clubs, via the memo – which was issued just before the draft combine – that if they did not have an Indigenous staffer available, then the AFL would provide the clubs with one. “The AFL is able to provide a representative for the players,” it said. Sources familiar with past draft combines, formerly known as the draft camp, said the AFL’s recommendation – a virtual mandate to have the Indigenous expert present in interviews with First Nations teenagers – was unprecedented and a measure of the AFL’s increased awareness of the risks of non-Indigenous officials mishandling a young First Nations player.

 

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