Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players' Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). In 2014 she won the Melbourne Press Club's Graham Perkin award as Australian journalist of the year. She also won a MPC Quill Award in 2003.
The AFL now looks highly unlikely to expand its eight-team national women's competition until at least 2019 in a move which has placed it at odds with a number of losing bidder clubs who believe they have been misled.
The AFL will on Wednesday unveil its newly named pre-season competition as the JLT Community Series after striking a three-year deal with its insurance broker JLT Sport.
The extraordinary return of Geoff Walsh to Collingwood little more than three years after he walked out of the club, having said his piece to some board members and clearly at odds with the chief executive Gary Pert, again underlines that football is as forgiving as it is pragmatic.
Saints coach turned to an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas in a bid to improve his self-control.
That Gary Ablett's legacy is already being debated, and with an eternal question mark over his commitment to the Gold Coast Suns, does not bode well for Rodney Eade.
The AFL has responded to increasing social pressure and will put in place a responsible gambling policy before the start of the 2017 season.
Collingwood has made a play for Hawthorn's highly regarded list manager Graham Wright in its search for a new head of football.
AFL remains determined to penalise Greater Western Sydney for conduct unbecoming over the Lachie Whitfield affair but could now defer draft penalties until 2017.
Even allowing for the appropriate sensitivity afforded Essendon's devastated Jobe Watson, the inescapable impression is that the AFL has danced around the practical details of how to manage the handover to Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin.
If behaviours within Australian sport and particularly football mirror the behaviours of society, Â then clearly we are a most forgiving nation.
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