Garner-ing support:Will this be the year this AFLW star finally wins the best and fairest?

Garner-ing support:Will this be the year this AFLW star finally wins the best and fairest?

Jasmine Garner has won almost every award there is to win in the AFLW,some of them multiple times. But she’s never won the league’s best and fairest. Is that about to change?

  • byHannah Kennelly andRoy Ward

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‘It’s not often us – it’s the parents’:The staggering private school dominance of the AFL draft

‘It’s not often us – it’s the parents’:The staggering private school dominance of the AFL draft

We crunched the numbers and they paint a telling picture of just where the AFL’s draftees are coming from.

  • byMarc McGowan
‘Wants to see improvement’:Why this star free agent has put contract talks on hold
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AFL 2025

‘Wants to see improvement’:Why this star free agent has put contract talks on hold

A gun midfielder will be one of the hottest free agents of 2025 if he doesn’t put pen to paper on a new deal.

  • byJon Pierik andRoy Ward
‘I thought,geez,this is a happy story’:Helen Garner on her footy book

‘I thought,geez,this is a happy story’:Helen Garner on her footy book

The acclaimed writer spent a season watching her grandson play football. The result is a story of love in the face of time’s passing.

  • byJake Niall
Demons reveal Brayshaw payout figure;Petracca returns to training track
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AFL 2025

Demons reveal Brayshaw payout figure;Petracca returns to training track

The Demons have disclosed the payout to Angus Brayshaw in a year when the premiership star was forced into retirement. This came on a day when Christian Petracca made an early return to pre-season training.

  • byJon Pierik
Elite talent,depth and building for a flag:Analysing each club’s 2024 draft selections
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Elite talent,depth and building for a flag:Analysing each club’s 2024 draft selections

Seventy-one players were drafted across the two nights of the 2024 draft. We look at each club’s haul and hear from recruiting and list managers to explain their strategies.

  • byMarc McGowan andPeter Ryan
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‘It was almost torture’:Tears turn to joy for draftees as Whitlock joins his twin in the big league

‘It was almost torture’:Tears turn to joy for draftees as Whitlock joins his twin in the big league

On a busy AFL draft night,one of the Whitlock twins finally got his moment. There’s two new Camporeales at Carlton after Ben and Lucas Camporeale were picked as father-sons and a Melbourne teen was overjoyed after Port Adelaide nabbed him.

  • byScott Spits
Every pick from the 2024 AFL draft

Every pick from the 2024 AFL draft

The full list of players from the 2024 AFL national draft as they were selected.

  • byRoy Ward
‘I’ll be judged by the members’:Defiant Don Scott bids to join Hawks board

‘I’ll be judged by the members’:Defiant Don Scott bids to join Hawks board

The two-time premiership captain who helped save Hawthorn from a merger with Melbourne has nominated to run for the Hawks’ board – but he has not followed the club’s usual route for board nominees.

  • byJake Niall
‘Back to its rightful position as No.1’:Pies’ presidential candidate lays out vision

‘Back to its rightful position as No.1’:Pies’ presidential candidate lays out vision

Collingwood will search for ways to grow,according to Barry Carp,who hopes to be the next president of the league’s biggest club.

  • byMichael Gleeson
The Hawks couldn’t win in the racism scandal. But they found an escape route

The Hawks couldn’t win in the racism scandal. But they found an escape route

Heartfelt encounters between officials and players/partners at the Human Rights Commission over claims of racism left Hawthorn alone fighting in their corner.

  • byJake Niall