The AFL's mental health reckoning
5/6/202616 min
Last month, AFL player Elijah Hollands experienced a mental health episode on the field in a game televised across the country. Days later, the 24-year-old was hospitalised, with his Club calling for privacy. Then, earlier this week, the AFL fined Carlton $75,000 for its handling of Hollands’ episode. In today’s podcast, we’ll explain what happened, plus the calls for more mental health support in the AFL.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Billi FitzSimons
Producer: Rosa Bowden
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Zara Seidler· Host0:03
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Speaker 20:08
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This is The Daily Aus. Oh, now it makes sense. [upbeat music] [upbeat music] Good morning, and welcome to The Daily Aus. It's Thursday the 7th of May. I'm Zara Seidler.
Billi FitzSimons· Host0:24
I'm Billi FitzSimons.
Zara Seidler· Host0:25
Last month, AFL player Elijah Hollands experienced a mental health episode while on the field in a game being televised across the country. Days later, the 24-year-old was hospitalized, with his club calling for privacy.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:39
This, this can't be a public event. It's a private challenge. Um, so what we'll treat it as is that, privacy and respect it.
Zara Seidler· Host0:47
Then, earlier this week, the AFL fined Carlton $75,000 for its handling of Hollands' episode. In today's podcast, we're gonna explain what happened, plus the calls for more mental health support in the AFL. Before we get there, though, here's a quick message from Claude in our partnerships team.
Billi FitzSimons· Host1:04
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