Failed attempt to settle with First Nations families

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Attempts by Hawthorn to participate into mediation talks which would person led to fiscal settlements with immoderate of the First Nations players and their families astatine the centre of the AFL racism probe person been revealed.

The Age reports the treatment connected mediation with the lawyer representing a subordinate and partner, Dr Judy Courtin did not spell far, portion others besides rejected the offer.

"Yes, the nine did question to commencement the process of mediation and I don't deliberation it truly got past definite lawyers, and present we are into the autarkic AFL investigation," Hawthorn committee subordinate and the board's nominated statesmanlike campaigner Peter Nankivell told The Age.

Asked astir the imaginable of Hawthorn settling with the players and their families, Nankivell said: "I deliberation getting successful a country and talking to people, 1 another, and talking to those who are making complaints and those who are being complained against is an eminently sensible thought and to the grade that could pb to outcomes, that's probably, that's the intention."

Nankivell responded to criticism of Hawthorn's handling of the taste information reappraisal - which was handed connected to the AFL without Clarkson oregon Fagan being interviewed.

He said the past First Nations players and their families had told their stories connected an anonymous basis. "They told their stories. To the grade that they were allegations against radical astatine the shot club, we were not successful a presumption to, oregon person the capabilities to analyse those allegations."

Nankivell said nether the AFL policies they were obligated "to notation those issues consecutive distant into the AFL".

"Unfortunately, the events successful the media, overtook immoderate constituent of procedural fairness due to the fact that if this had gone into the AFL without it being disclosed, without these allegations being enactment successful the media, past a process would person been underway."

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