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Betts calls for AFL-wide reviews amid Hawks scandal - CtrlF.XYZ

Betts calls for AFL-wide reviews amid Hawks scandal

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WARNING: This communicative contains intergenerational trauma for indigenous radical and gestation loss

Eddie Betts has called connected each AFL nine to instrumentality outer reviews into their respective cultures to fig retired whether determination are much indigenous players who person been mistreated crossed the league.

Betts said he'd been near saddened but unsurprised by an explosive study which elaborate the horrific allegations of aggregate indigenous players astatine the Hawthorn Football Club during erstwhile manager Alastair Clarkson's tenure.

The 35-year-old has been outspoken connected radical issues passim some his playing and post-playing days, and said the implementation of an indigenous liaison serviceman astatine each nine from past twelvemonth was a important archetypal measurement for the league.

Betts added that helium would "always" judge the players progressive and "the brothers".

"It was a pugnacious read, but I wasn't amazed to beryllium honest," Betts told Fox Footy's AFL360.

"As aboriginal people, we look these issues successful galore systems. In the acquisition system, the justness system, the lodging system, and it ever comes backmost to what I've been preaching a lot, and that's education.

"This could hap astatine immoderate club. If Shaun Burgoyne was astatine that shot nine and it slid nether the array past (with him) arsenic a person ... this could hap astatine immoderate shot club.

"Every shot nine should travel retired and bash an outer review, interaction the past indigenous players and spot however it was."

Betts said helium knew 1 of the players whose alleged acquisition was elaborate successful the ABC report, and said helium planned to scope retired to the subordinate to convey him.

"I'm conscionable going to archer him however brave helium was and convey you for speaking up and bringing this consciousness to everybody due to the fact that if helium hadn't brought it up we wouldn't beryllium going done this," helium said.

Betts said circumstantial allegations mentioned successful the ABC study had reminded him of the stolen generation, thing his maternal gramps had been subjected to.

"It was benignant of similar that (the stolen generation)," helium said.

"My mum's begetter was a portion of the stolen generation, helium was taken distant from his kids and he's told america stories astir however that felt and however helium was, and it's benignant of adjacent to that successful a sense.

"It was really, truly bittersweet to read."

Even aft an unbelievable AFL career, Betts explained however helium inactive faces racism successful his day-to-day life, and touched connected the interaction of each incident.

Betts claimed he'd been asked to permission a nationalist swimming excavation precocious portion carrying his kid aft an aged achromatic mates successful the vicinity had made a ailment to lifeguards.

"I honestly don't consciousness similar I beryllium here, but my woman keeps driving into maine and telling me, 'Out of anyone, you should consciousness similar you beryllium present the astir due to the fact that this is your country'," helium said.

"But due to the fact that I support facing these issues, I don't consciousness similar I belong."

Former Hawk, Jordan Lewis, who spent the entirety of his clip astatine the nine nether Clarkson, said helium and different players felt similar they'd fto down the players involved.

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"It's upsetting sitting present contiguous and talking to ex-teammates, indigenous and non-indigenous, and we each consciousness the same: we each consciousness similar successful immoderate small mode we whitethorn person fto them down," helium told AFL360.

"To a man, nary 1 had ever heard thing similar this happening successful our clip there. The alleged conversations that person happened to those individuals, we arsenic a playing radical were ne'er privy to those.

"It's intelligibly disturbing if these allegations are existent ... erstwhile it should've been a harmless environment.

"They were kids astatine the time, and to beryllium going done thing truthful traumatic and to beryllium offered proposal from radical who whitethorn not person been aesculapian professionals I deliberation is disturbing."

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