![]() ![]() There is pushback from prominent Tasmanians and from club presidents. At a time of rising inflation and interest rates, the prospect of a rugby league-loving, Sydney-based prime minister allocating hundreds of millions of federal budget dollars to a footy stadium in Hobart is no sure thing. The new Tasmanian team is now in the hands of the Albanese government. The Tasmanian and concussion issues are similarly fraught, and beyond his control. ![]() Are a bunch of football administrators any better equipped?Ĭollingwood’s Darcy Cameron is tackled by Jai Newcombe of Hawthorn during a practice match at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston. ![]() Generations of prime ministers, politicians and Aboriginal leaders have been unable, or unwilling, to address it, let alone achieve it. It’s not something that can be thrashed out over a long lunch. McLachlan, in his final days as CEO, probably didn’t have “undertaking decolonisation” on his to-do list. One of their lawyers said the process should focus on “minimising power differentials” and “undertaking the process of decolonisation”. But the complainants refused to play by the AFL’s rules. “There will be learnings from this,” he said. They were something to get to the bottom of, and to move on from. AFL chairman Richard Goyder marvelled at his ability to see around corners, to get on the front foot and to take hold of a crisis.Īt first, the Hawthorn allegations seemed to play to his strengths. His real talents always lay in backrooms – in driving hard bargains, in massaging giant egos and in controlling complex narratives. You have to canoodle with the Murdochs and charm the Auskicker of the week. ![]() In McLachlan’s role, you have to be everything to everyone. There were concussion class actions looming. There was a Tasmanian team to get off the ground. There was a collective bargaining agreement to negotiate. There was no new general manager of football. “The Hawthorn thing”, as he called it last week, was ongoing. There was so much back home that was still hanging. He joined Murdoch and Gordon Ramsay at the Super Bowl for the bucks celebrations of celebrity chef Guillaume Brahimi, who was marrying a chicken heiress. He played polo with James Packer in Argentina. McLachlan himself enjoyed some rest and recreation. Chris Fagan and Alastair Clarkson denied all allegations. By late spring, it was as though it had never been published. When the Hawthorn story first dropped, everyone was “horrified”, “shocked”, “sickened”. A month earlier, speaking at the IPA’s new Centre for the Australian Way of Life, he had lamented that “to listen to our national broadcaster and much of the media elite is to hear about a uniquely racist, sexist, slavish and monochromatic country”. The contested ball differentials? Their upcoming bucks festivities at the Super Bowl? The cultural threats posed by ABC journalists? Raised in Manhattan, educated at Princeton, and the owner of a $30m super yacht, Murdoch was nonetheless no fan of ABC elites. It would be interesting to know what they talked about. upcomingregionalsection.cms?parentid=61017241&genere=*:* /upcomingregionalsection.A few days later, on grand final day, McLachlan sat next to Lachlan Murdoch. ![]()
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