What an odd take.
This is about the AFL, a private organisation, not the government.
If anything, you making the comment trying to discredit opposition is reminiscent of a police state / AFL apologist.
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Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function
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This is about the AFL, a private organisation, not the government.
If anything, you making the comment trying to discredit opposition is reminiscent of a police state / AFL apologist.
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It's never okay for a coach to threaten to '9/11' a player.
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Dude, people are saying they want to fine Mardi Gras because GWS players did some dodgy stuff.
But my comment is reminiscent of a police state?
I’ll make comment of their comments when I want to.
Just like everyone make comments about mine when they want to.
As an aside, I wonder how the employees of BF feel about comments like the ridiculous Mardi Gras ones.
They might send them to the AFL, who can suspend football supporter accounts for not meeting their standards.
Yes it does.
They didn't see it first hand because they weren't invited to the private function.
You would have thought your big brain could work that one out.
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You realise that BF has terms and conditions that you have agreed to, and users do get suspended for breaking those terms and conditions, yeah?
That's only due to very poor security procedures by the venue.
Doesn't mean it wasn't a private function.
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Where would this fit in with the right to disconnect laws also?
Entire point of the laws is you are not available 24 hours a day to a company. This seems to me like AFL are saying the players work 24 hours a day for them and therefore can be punished outside of working hours?
Not much of a right to disconnect huh
Entire point of the laws is you are not available 24 hours a day to a company. This seems to me like AFL are saying the players work 24 hours a day for them and therefore can be punished outside of working hours?
Not much of a right to disconnect huh
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Irrelevant if it is private. You do dumb shit and get caught, you wear the penalty that the relevant authoritie give you. Just like P Diddy and Epestein.
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I'm sure the AFLPA and club legal counsel are all over it. I presume the event was not compulsory attendance though.
Of course, but I’m talking about the employees.
Well it is relevant.
Hopefully the business bottom line suffers due to their dickhead employee and they get fired for it.
Teach them to have far more secure systems in place when it comes to how they protect their client's privacy when no crime has been committed.
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Serious question here, but should Geeling players not be punished post incident for what they did? Im not sure why time means they get off the crime they committed?
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It was a work function. Paid for by the club and attendance was optional, let alone the offensive material.
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No, scroll down. There is a Privacy policy.
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People have a right to a workplace they feel safe in. D...head footy players shouldn't have been re-enacting trauma inducing events in front of staff. And if they get caught out, suck it up and take the penalty of the relevant authority, just like everyone else in the world.
Oh please.
This trauma inducing garbage is such nonsense.
Nobody is under any obligation to consider your feelings.
It's the most ludicrous thing to suggest people can't do things because someone might get upset about it.
Especially when you take that mindset and apply it to every single person and every single situation people encounter.
It wouldn’t matter anyway. Right to disconnect covers obligation to work, not bringing your employer into disrepute.
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Isn't this just an argument a rapist would make when someone doesn't consent?
No it's an argument that society doesn't have to tip toe around everything because of some individuals feelings or experiences.
Do you think someone who had a bad experience with a drunk person then gets to expect that nobody else can now get drunk around them because they might be traumatised by that?
I know I am biased, so I will state upfront that I think the AFL and the club have handled this terribly. Apologies, donations, and some community service would have been far better.
The two major differences between the GWS event and the Bartel costume are:
1) Bartel didn’t do a skit re-enacting rape, which is key, and
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2) It was in a different time.
Bartel probably couldn’t get away with it now. The world - and the sensitivity with which we handle sexual assault - has changed so much over the last few years, and largely for the better.
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You're highlighting the issue of picking and choosing what is okay from your morals. We elect a government to put laws in place to protect the majority. Not for individuals to decide.
Work places have rules in place to protect the employees and the organisation. So if the GWS boys thought it would be okay, then there is a disconnect between them and the AFL that needs to be sorted.
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