
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.