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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Lisa Cox

Tim Winton urges Fremantle Dockers to drop Woodside Energy sponsorship

Fremantle Dockers fans waving flags at an AFL match
A group of Fremantle Dockers supporters have urged the AFL club to drop Woodside Energy as a major sponsor over the company’s fossil fuel interests. Photograph: Jason McCawley/AFL Photos/via Getty Images

High profile Fremantle Dockers fans, including Tim Winton and former Western Australian premier Carmen Lawrence, have called on the club to end its partnership with Woodside Energy.

In a letter to the club’s president, Dale Alcock, and other board members, the group wrote it “it is no longer appropriate to have a fossil fuel company as our major sponsor moving forward”.

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