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The AFL needs to rethink its approach to AFLW.

Origin of the AFL’s great challenge: What AFLW can learn from the NRL

The Matildas have raised the bar. The NRLW has jumped ahead via Origin. The AFL can’t create a larger footprint for women without thinking bigger.

  • Jake Niall

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Carlton premiership player Andrew McKay with daughters Abbie, centre, and Sophie.

‘Something that makes me different’: How COVID shaped the Blues’ new skipper

Abbie McKay, the first father-daughter AFLW captain, talks about her rocky road to establishing her career.

  • Danny Russell
Beaumaris players gather in the changerooms before their memorial game honouring Holly and Bianca.

‘They left us way too soon’: Footy club honours Laos poisoning victims Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones

Beaumaris Football Club, where Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones played in a premiership together in 2022, has celebrated the lives and legacy of the two young women with a game in their honour.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Players from the Kyneton Women’s Football Club

Ire of the Tigers: Why the women broke away from a footy ‘boys’ club’

This team has caused a stir by leaving one of football’s oldest clubs to go out on their own. But the players say they’re fighting for the betterment of women’s sport.

  • Gemma Grant
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AFLW draft 2024: Every pick from the first AFLW national draft

The AFLW’s brave new world of a national draft where players could end up anywhere in the country had an immediate impact. See every pick.

  • Scott Spits
AFLW draft hopeful Grace Baba is waiting for the suspense to be over.

From soccer fields to AFLW dreams: Grace Baba’s draft journey

On Monday night at Marvel Stadium, 18-year-old Grace Baba will wait with bated breath for her name to be read aloud during the AFLW draft.

  • Hannah Kennelly
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Ash Centra shapes as the likely No.1 pick at Monday’s AFLW draft.

What does each club need and who will they take? Your guide to the AFLW draft

Ash Centra will move from Sleepy Seaspray to the biggest football club in the land, with Collingwood poised to take her as the No.1 pick in the AFLW’s first unrestricted national draft on Monday night.

  • Peter Ryan
Zippy Fish

‘It would be awkward if I was slow’: The zippiest and most famous names in the AFLW draft

Western Australian Zippy Fish is a top-five contender in this year’s draft class alongside South Fremantle star Molly O’Hehir and likely no.1 pick Ash Centra. 

  • Hannah Kennelly
Melbourne Demons star Tayla Harris.

One of AFLW’s biggest names wanted out of Melbourne. Here’s why her wish was denied

This star forward – one of the most recognisable figures in the competition – now has to decide whether to accept the Demons’ offer, or take her chances in the AFLW draft with no guarantee she would end up at her club of choice.

  • Peter Ryan
No go: Essendon president David Barham has rejected a call to change the club’s constitution to acknowledge the harm the club’s poker machine licences have caused.

Dons urge members to vote against anti-pokies push; Pies and Hawks keen to swoop on Harris

An acknowledgement that their 190 poker machines in two venues are causing social harm would affect its financial independence from the AFL, Essendon says.

  • Jon Pierik and Peter Ryan

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