Former Hawthorn player Carl Peterson appeared drunk or drug-affected and lost his clothing after being picked up by a club official at the airport, the AFL club claims.
Allegations of unlawful discrimination, including family separations and pressuring a pregnancy termination, have been levelled in the Federal Court against the club's former coach Alastair Clarkson, his former assistant Chris Fagan and former welfare manager Jason Burt.
From February 2009, Peterson's partner Nikita Rotumah occasionally contacted Burt concerned about his continued drug use and behaviour, court documents state.Peterson was delisted from the club in October 2010 after Rotumah informed the club he had taken marijuana earlier in the week during an elimination final.
He claims the coach questioned his skin colour when he turned up unannounced to Alice Springs while Rioli was visiting his sick dad in hospital.
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