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Kennett claims 'unfair' treatment in tense interview - CtrlF.XYZ

Kennett claims 'unfair' treatment in tense interview

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Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has staunchly denied the nine is successful a "crisis" and described the AFL's probe into allegations of racism astatine the nine arsenic "a bump successful the highway".

The AFL is compiling a sheet to analyse disturbing claims from a fig of First Nations players who antecedently spent clip astatine the Hawks.

Hawthorn itself had commissioned a reappraisal of imaginable racism astatine the club, earlier an explosive ABC study elaborate allegations from 3 erstwhile players and their families.

The allegations see claims elder staffers from the nine forced First Nations players to abstracted from their families and partners, and successful 1 lawsuit suggested a player's spouse should terminate a pregnancy.

In a tense back-and-forth interrogation with Nine's Today, Kennett refuted claims his nine faces a crisis.

"These allegations took spot six to 12 years ago, and they are shocking, I judge that," Kennett said.

"We had a process successful spot to effort enactment out... what value we should enactment to those allegations.

"But fto maine archer you, to maine a situation is thing I experienced galore years agone erstwhile (I was Victorian) premier, erstwhile I was driving backmost from the state and was rung up and told the Longford Gas Plant had had an explosion, radical had died, radical were injured, and the state supplies to Melbourne had been chopped off. That, to me, is simply a crisis.

"These allegations are shocking, and they've got to beryllium managed, and they've got to beryllium dealt with, and present they've got to beryllium dealt with peculiarly successful the interests of those who person been named.

"The mode to woody with this is calmly, maturely, enactment successful spot the requirements that are indispensable to guarantee each parties get justice.

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"It is simply a absorption issue, with shocking accusation being given."

The ABC study named 3 erstwhile Hawks employees astatine the centre of the allegations - erstwhile caput manager Alastair Clarkson, his shot manager Chris Fagan, and improvement serviceman Jason Burt.

All 3 contradict immoderate wrongdoing, but person stood down from their existent jobs indefinitely portion the probe takes place.

Kennett is upset the 3 players spoke to the ABC and named individuals.

"We had a process successful place, I person not attacked the players," helium said.

"We person a confidential process successful place... it's besides violative to those they person accused.

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"When you person a confidential process, and you inquire for confidentiality yourself but you don't springiness it yourself to those you are accusing... past that's unfair, it's not earthy justice.

"I'm not accusing them of anything, I'm simply stating a fact.

"I don't cognize wherefore they went public. It was a confidential survey... confidential, they agreed to that, and past they went public.

"This isn't a crisis, this is conscionable a substance of managing a concern successful the involvement of each parties."

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