Baghdad Bob wrote: Well it has not taken the current woke leadership of the AFL to get on board the Indigenous Voice. In the past week the portraits of the founding fathers of Australian rules together with all previous AFL CEOs have been removed  from the boardroom at AFL house and replaced, wait for this, with art work of indigenous artists, as a gesture to support the Voice.  To replace Tom Wills, the most significant founding father, with some dotted indigenous artwork , is an absolute joke.

These paintings of past presidents have always resided in the boardroom, per convention, and depicted the code’s venerated patriarchs, from former chairman Mike Fitzpatrick to the late Ron Evans and SirKenneth Luke, among others.

Lately these artworks have become a delicate matter for the AFL, perhaps even a low-key source of discomfort. The subjects are all male, and they are all white. We hear at least one administrator remarked upon the lack of diversity on display and, as everyone knows, that’s a crime of the deepest dye for any sporting code.