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AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan (Image: AAP/James Ross) We’ve had so many royal commissions of late — two into Crown Resorts, aged care, bushfires, veteran suicide, banking, mental health, family violence, pink batts, trade union governance, Lawyer X, etc — that it’s not such a great leap to call for a decent independent examination of one of Australia’s leading sporting institutions, the AFL. That was the conclusion I reached after reading Michael Warner’s stunning new book, The Boys’ Club, which was launched by Hawthorn president and former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett last week. ...

Andrew Demetriou parts ways with stadium design firm Share Andrew Demetriou has lost another gig. A month after the ex-AFL chief and former Crown Melbourne chairman gave a televised public lesson in October in how not to answer questions on the stand, he parted ways with Cox Architecture, which designs stadiums. A spokesman for the firm said Demetriou himself suggested his consultancy to the group had run its natural course. Andrew Demetriou has time on his hands.   Demetriou was never a director. His role chairing Cox’s “Operational Board of Management” focused on operations, rather t...