KEY POINTS AFTER THE AFL WRAPPED UP THE HAWTHORN RACISM INVESTIGATION:-
* No expenses to be laid towards four-time Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson, his then assistant and now Brisbane Lions head coach Chris Fagan and ex-Hawk participant welfare supervisor Jason Burt. The AFL say no league guidelines have been breached.
* The AFL acknowledges the misery and harm of Clarkson, Fagan and Burt after they weren’t given the chance to reply earlier than explosive allegations have been first made in an ABC report final September.
* The AFL additionally acknowledges every of the complainants’ harm, ache and anguish throughout their time at Hawthorn, with all three denying any wrongdoing from the beginning.
* The First Nations complainants have agreed to resolve all variations with the AFL. League boss Gillon McLachlan stated no monetary settlement was reached to shut the investigation.
* The complainants are free to pursue claims via different authorized avenues such because the civil court docket and the Human Rights Commission.
* The AFL has terminated the impartial panel set as much as examine the intense allegations of racism at Hawthorn between 2008 and 2016.
* The AFL has left the door large open for Hawthorn to be charged beneath league guidelines as a result of fee and oversight of the membership’s cultural security assessment.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
