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Caroline Wilson

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.

Ken Hinkley with Port Adelaide CEO Keith Thomas on Tuesday.

Port see the light, but dark times for Suns

Experienced coaches with solid finals records don't come around every day. Which is why Port Adelaide envisaged a world without Ken Hinkley, did not like what it saw and responded accordingly.

Steve Hocking is overseeing the succession plan at Geelong before moving to AFL headquarters.

Lloyd firms up as top fancy for Cats role

Simon Lloyd has emerged as the front runner to take over as Geelong's head of football next month with the Cats forced to restructure its department following the impending departure of Steve Hocking.