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NSW/ACT claims two U18 Girls All Australian spots

Zarlie Goldsworthy from Lavington Panthers and Cynthia Hamilton of Queanbeyan Tigers (via Belconnen Magpies) have had very different footy journeys. They each share a place in the 2022 NAB AFLW National Championships U18 Girls All-Australian Team. These players were also

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…and (some of) the winners are…

The AFL’s Golden Rego competition has been run and won, with 1,100 lucky prize winners across the country announced last month. As part of the AFL’s $50 million investment to support community football, the AFL launched the Golden Rego Giveaway

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Community Umpiring Week gets underway

From 6-13 May, we will celebrate Community Umpiring Week with the aim to encourage people to get involved in umpiring Australian football at the community level. Throughout the week the AFL will be celebrating Community Umpiring Week across the country

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Third time lucky for Indigenous and multicultural talent

For three days in the April school holidays, more than 50 high school girls came together to make new friends, get to know theirs and each other’s cultures, and improve their footy skills. The Indigenous Youth Girls Leadership Program and

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New Community Football Manager appointed

AFL NSW/ACT is pleased to announce that John Boulous has accepted the role of Community Football Manager NSW ACT and will begin with the AFL on Monday, 9 May 2022 based out of AFL NSW/ACT’s Moore Park office. John comes

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Independent Schools’ winter season kicks off

Independent Girls Schools Winter Competition  On Friday, 29 April students from Barker College, Mount St Benedict College and Redlands will commence the inaugural Independent Girls Schools Winter Competition. The first round will see games played at Barker College and Macquarie

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1,000 reasons to kick off the NAB AFL Auskick season

Auskickers across NSW and the ACT came together on Tuesday, 19 April to meet one of the game’s biggest superstars, Sydney Swans’ Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin at the SCG yesterday to celebrate the return of the NAB AFL Auskick season. Each

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Bathurst local returns home from NAB AFLW Grand Final experience

Bathurst Giant’s Katie Kennedy has returned home from a trip of a lifetime, as part of her role as a 2022 Chemist Warehouse AFLW Community Ambassador.   Katie was one of seven community football representatives from across the country to

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Naden ready to take off

On the eve of the Indigenous Youth Girls Leadership Program’s camp, taking take place from 12-14 April 2022, AFL NSW/ACT caught up with one of the program’s alumni, Erin Naden. Thanks to Transport for NSW for its continual support of

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To Lismore with love

Two of the AFL’s all-time greats visited Lismore’s footy community this week to deliver equipment and apparel donations. Four-time Premiership coach, Alastair Clarkson, accompanied Sydney Swans’ Norm Smith Medallist, Ryan O’Keefe, also met the local club, the Lismore Swans, and

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