Families at the centre of the Hawthorn racism saga have expressed their anger at the refusal of former Hawthorn coaching officials and the club to participate in mediation over incidents that they say changed the course of their lives
Some of the Indigenous families at the centre of the Hawthorn racism saga have expressed their frustration and anger at the refusal of former Hawthorn coaching officials and the club to participate in mediation over incidents that they say changed the course of their lives.
Law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler confirmed that an application from the families to the commission had been lodged on Friday afternoon.“They have made their choice, and we will now bring them to a Human Rights Commission conciliation to listen to the truths that they don’t want to hear,” the letter says.
“We told our truths in confidence, because we believed that it would bring change. And because we needed to heal and move on. That confidence was betrayed.”“All we ever wanted was to sit with the coaches and officials we looked up to, and who had such control over our lives and our futures, and make them understand what we heard ... we are gutted that these so-called AFL role models weren’t prepared to listen to our truths through mediation.
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