Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has doubled down on his criticism of former Indigenous players for naming the senior club officials at the centre of allegations of racist and controlling behaviour.
“The AFL has a process in place that could have resolved this confidentially and in the interests of all parties,” Kennett told radio station 3AW on Sunday. “And I’m still hopeful that all the parties will realise it’s in their interests to do this as quickly as possible so that everyone can get on with their lives.”“I can’t speak for them but I’ve been working with the Indigenous community now for 40 years and still doing it at a fairly high level,” Kennett said.
“Now that’s been the case over the last five years, [but] I guess these incidents, I’m not quite sure when they occurred, but somewhere between six and 12 years ago, so it’s got a long tail. “WorkSafe is urging anyone who experienced or witnessed health and safety concerns at Hawthorn Football Club to contact WorkSafe to make a statement,” WorkSafe’s executive director of health and safety, Narelle Beer, said.
“It was a storytelling where those telling the stories asked for confidentiality. We respected that. Sadly, they made a decision to talk to the press, and in talking to the press they named people with whom they had very real issues. That was unfair to those people,” he said.
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