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Anna Harrington

Hawthorn want to repair relationships after racism saga

Hawks president Andy Gowers has spoken for the first time since the club's racism saga settlement. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

After Hawthorn brought their racism saga to a close, the AFL club is determined to find the best way to repair relationships with the affected Indigenous former players.

Retired premiership star Cyril Rioli was the lead applicant in a statement of claim lodged in the Federal Court in July alongside his wife Shannyn Ah Sam-Rioli, former players Carl Peterson and Jermaine Miller-Lewis, his partner Montanah-Rae Lewis, and Hawthorn's former Indigenous liaison officer Leon Egan.

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