Sacked Melbourne lawyer who chucked sickie to go to the AFL loses bid to get his job back https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/10/sacked-melbourne-lawyer-who-chucked-sickie-to-go-to-the-afl-loses-bid-to-get-his-job-back-ntwnfb
Fair Work Commission finds Mitchell Fuller was not unfairly dismissed for taking a sick day while at the AFL Gather Round in Adelaide. #auslaw #AFL

AFL partners divulge ‘lifelong body dysmorphia’ from online trolling
By Marnie Vinall

Paris Tier, the partner of GWS defender Conor Stone, found herself in her GP’s office asking to go on Ozempic after receiving online hate comments about her weight.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-08/afl-partners-talk-body-shaming-trolling/104994072

The Nest

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-nest/

Two men caught with loaded guns at MCG
#AusNews #vicnews #vkc #police #firearms #footy #afl #mcg

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/news/melbourne-news/two-men-caught-with-loaded-guns-at-mcg/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Two men charged with carrying a loaded gun into MCG during AFL match

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/afl-guns-found-collingwood-carlton-mcg/105136164

Geelong Cats

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/geelong-cats/

One of my favorite things about streaming and the roughly 400 sports streams and channels is the chance to break out of the major sports on offer in the USA and look at everything else. I've been happily watching Lacrosse and Cricket (which I still don't completely understand, but that's for another post). But my FAVORITE new discoveries are out of Australia: NRL Rugby League and AFL...football?

The Shepmates Podcast

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-shepmates-podcast/

I knew I should have skipped coffee this morning! My local barista is a Hawks' fan!! #AFL #AFLSwansHawks

Common sense has prevailed, with both #AFL games in Brisbane called off for this weekend.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1274435/afl-makes-decision-on-brisbane-lions-v-geelong-cats-and-gold-coast-suns-and-essendon-bombers-games-as-tropical-cyclone-alfred-looms

Lawyers say former footballer Nicky Winmar could spearhead racism lawsuit against AFL https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/afl-racism-class-action-nicky-winmar/105003158 #auslaw #AFL

'It’s a condition, being a Fremantle fan. One of my favourite Australian newspaper writers, Martin McKenzie-Murray, writes beautifully about them. “In supporting Freo I’ve come to wallow – luxuriate, even – in our seemingly endless mediocrity,” he wrote several years ago. “Rather than something to be fought, or something that might cause pain, my self-pity has magically cast Freo’s history into a kind of sad, private martyrdom.”' https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/26/from-the-pocket-fremantle-need-to-get-pulses-racing-to-finally-break-the-cycle-of-vanilla-mediocrity #AFL #Fremantle

Washed Up With Kit & Rowan

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/washed-up-with-kit-rowan/

Next up, can the #BrisbaneLions go back-to-back??

Their March #AFL fixture is set to give us a pretty good idea of how they compare to some of last year's best opponents!

Download | https://bit.ly/2025aflfixtures

Sonny the skipper: Freo veteran to lead Indigenous All-Stars
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1266733/sonny-michael-walters-the-skipper-fremantle-dockers-veteran-named-to-lead-indigenous-all-stars
Michael Walters will lead a star-studded line-up against his Fremantle teammates in next Saturday's pre-season clash #AFL #Footy @afl@lemmy.ml

Today in Labor History February 6, 1919: The Seattle General Strike began. 65,000 workers participated. Longshoremen, trolley operators and bartenders also participated. The strike began in response to government sanctioned wage cuts. Both the AF of L and the IWW participated. During the strike, the workers formed councils, which took over virtually all major city services, including food distribution and security. They also continued garbage collection. Laundry workers continued to handle hospital laundry. And firefighters remained on duty. They established a system of food distribution, which provided 30,000 meals each day. Any exemption to the work stoppage had to be ok’d by the General Strike Committee. Army veterans created an independent police force to maintain order. The Labor War Veteran's Guard prohibited the use of force and didn’t carry weapons. The regular police made no arrests in any actions related to the strike. Overall, arrests dropped to less than half their normal number.

A pamphlet that was distributed during the strike said, “You are doomed to wage slavery till you die unless you wake up, realize that you and the boss have nothing in common, that the employing class must be overthrown, and that you, the workers, must take over the control of your jobs, and through them, the control over your lives instead of offering yourself up to the masters as a sacrifice six days a week, so that they may coin profits out of your sweat and toil."

The strike ended when they brought in federal troops and the workers were pressured to quit by bureaucrats from the national unions, particularly the AFL.

Best of the best: Your club's team of the century (so far), Part II
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1265077/best-of-the-best-your-clubs-team-of-the-century-so-far-part-ii
Some players are automatic selections. For others, it's a line-ball call. AFL.com.au's reporters make the call on your club's best side since the turn of the century #AFL #Footy @afl@lemmy.ml

Next up in my #AFL mobile wallpapers tri-stripe series refresher - the Cats, Dons and Dockers!