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State Kickstart and All Nations squads announced

The AFL NSW/ACT Kickstart and All Nations squads for the 2018 AFL National Diversity Championships in April have been selected. Over 300 players from all the Australian states and territories will attend the five day tournament being held at Blacktown

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Mid-North Coast high schoolers set to raise AFLW curtain

High school aged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls teams from the Mid-North Coast and Western Sydney will compete in an AFLX style round-robin tournament, prior to Friday’s AFL Women’s match at Blacktown International Sportspark. In partnership with Role Models

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Woomeras and Medleys begin Leadership Program

The 2018 AFL Medleys and Rio Tinto AFL Woomeras Leadership Program began today, with six players from the New South Wales and ACT region in attendance. Kanayla Clayton (Sydney), Maleah Waters-Holten (Kempsey) and Mattarley Kelly-Scholes (Kempsey) join the program as

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Sydney to host National Male Diversity Champs

Diversity Championships

Western Sydney will host the 2018 National Male Diversity Championships for the second year running next month. Over 300 players from all the states and territories will attend the five day tournament being held at Blacktown International Sportspark between April

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Flying Boomerangs return from footy tour to Fiji

David Whyman

At the beginning of December, AFL NSW/ACT Kickstart players, David Whyman and Wesley Clark traveled to Fiji as a part of the Rio Tinto Flying Boomerangs Leadership Program. In its twelfth year, the Rio Tinto AFL Flying Boomerangs is the

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AFL empowering the next gen of Indigenous youth

  In 2017, 26 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from the seven high schools connected to the AFL NSW/ACT Western Sydney Indigenous Academies, graduated from Year 12. Established in 2006, the AFL NSW/ACT Western Sydney Indigenous Academies deliver specific

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Local teens on tour in Fiji with Flying Boomerangs

Flying Boomerangs

On Saturday, AFL NSW/ACT Flying Boomerangs team members, Wesley Clark and David Whyman took off for Fiji as a part of the 2017 Rio Tinto AFL Flying Boomerangs Leadership Program. Now in its twelfth year, the Rio Tinto AFL Flying

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Next generation show off their AFL Goodes

Adam Goodes Talent Camp

The fourth annual Adam Goodes Talent Program Camp took place over the weekend, welcoming 43 boys aged 12-15-years-old from across the region, for a weekend of cultural leadership and football development. The three day camp held at Sydney’s National Centre of

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Eight selected for Woomeras and Medleys squads

Eight players from the AFL NSW/ACT region have been selected for the Woomeras and Medleys representative squads after impressing at the AFL Female Diversity Championships in Byron Bay this week. The AFL NSW/ACT All Nations squad had a successful week in

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Riley-Brown’s take sisterly bond to Byron Bay

Riley-Brown sisters

Sisters, Ruby and Nakira Riley-Brown this week represented AFL NSW/ACT in the Indigenous Kickstart team at the second annual AFL Female Diversity Championships in Byron Bay. This is the second Female Diversity Championships for the Kuku Yalungi and Gamilaroi women, who played in

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