The Dusty dilemma:The questions Gold Coast and Martin are asking
Analysis
AFL 2024

The Dusty dilemma:The questions Gold Coast and Martin are asking

Dustin Martin is likely to land at the Suns – but once,a team asking if it wanted Dusty would have been a rhetorical question. It is not now.

  • byMichael Gleeson

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Dustin Martin’s bikie uncle avoids deportation after proving Indigenous heritage

Dustin Martin’s bikie uncle avoids deportation after proving Indigenous heritage

Dean Martin,a former Rebels bikie president who was once in a relationship with ex-Greens senator Lidia Thorpe,has been released from immigration detention.

  • byHannah Kennelly
Trade tightrope:The huge calls Richmond face on their stars

Trade tightrope:The huge calls Richmond face on their stars

The path that Richmond takes on whether to trade out Daniel Rioli and/or Shai Bolton represents the most consequential decision the club has faced since the exit of Damien Hardwick.

  • byJake Niall
Sidebottom’s up:Collingwood great to play on in 2025

Sidebottom’s up:Collingwood great to play on in 2025

Steele Sidebottom’s career is set to stretch into a 17th AFL season,meaning all nine of Collingwood’s 30-and-over players are slated to continue in 2025.

  • byJake Niall
What’s Dusty like? I spent four years at Punt Road and this is what I know
Opinion
AFL 2024

What’s Dusty like? I spent four years at Punt Road and this is what I know

Dustin Martin is a largely unknowable figure,who is what he does. Konrad Marshall spent four years embedded in the modern Richmond dynasty,and reflects on the career of the totemic Tiger.

  • byKonrad Marshall
A long time,and a good time,as Tom Hawkins bids farewell

A long time,and a good time,as Tom Hawkins bids farewell

Chris Scott described Tom Hawkins,who will retire at the end of the season,as an all-time great at Geelong. There was not even a hint of debate.

  • byPeter Ryan
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Tiger Dustin Martin and Cat Tom Hawkins announce their retirements

Tiger Dustin Martin and Cat Tom Hawkins announce their retirements

Hours after Richmond great Dustin Martin announced his 15-year AFL career was over,Geelong great Tom Hawkins followed suit and announced his career would close at the end of the season.

  • byJon Pierik
The retiring Tiger and the cool Cat were big-game hunters

The retiring Tiger and the cool Cat were big-game hunters

With the retirements of Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins,the AFL loses two greats of the game who both performed on the biggest stage.

  • byPeter Ryan
Dustin Martin’s bikie uncle to be deported

Dustin Martin’s bikie uncle to be deported

Dean Martin – a former Rebels president who was once in a relationship with Senator Lidia Thorpe – is to be sent to New Zealand after his visa was cancelled on character grounds.

  • byLachlan Abbott,Paul Sakkal andDavid Marin-Guzman
The ‘error of law’ that freed Lion Cameron and Giant Bedford
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AFL 2024

The ‘error of law’ that freed Lion Cameron and Giant Bedford

GWS Giants forward Toby Bedford is free to play after his appeal was upheld by the AFL appeals board on Thursday night. The Brisbane Lions also have had Charlie Cameron’s three-game ban overturned.

  • byAndrew Wu andRoy Ward
No Tom,no worries:Blues back depth,trump Tigers without in-form ruck

No Tom,no worries:Blues back depth,trump Tigers without in-form ruck

The Blues planning for a premiership tilt is in full swing,so they took the cautious approach and made in-form ruckman Tom De Koning sit out the match against Richmond.

  • byPeter Ryan