There have been some comments on this thread to the effect that this should be handed straight to the Police and/or WorkSafe Victoria. I disagree.
To "hand it to the Police" you would need to be alleging that there have been actual criminal offences, and that's not clear at all. And the Police are not some sort of third party general investigating agency, that you can in effect commission to conduct an inquiry on your behalf and then pass on the results to you. What happens if the Police investigate (with or without the cooperation of the complainants), and they find there is no solid case for a criminal prosecution? Can the AFL then ask them to hand over the details / results of their inquiry, for the AFL's own purposes?
Similarly for WorkSafe. It's possibly more likely that WorkSafe would find some breach(es) or WHS laws, and if they did they would probably go back to the AFL / Hawthorn for remediation of some kind. But SafeWork SA investigated the Crows camp, and found no breaches - that doesn't mean there weren't issues that the club needed to address.
Like it or not, it has to start with an AFL inquiry, with other agencies brought in afterwards, if appropriate / necessary. Not the other way around.
To "hand it to the Police" you would need to be alleging that there have been actual criminal offences, and that's not clear at all. And the Police are not some sort of third party general investigating agency, that you can in effect commission to conduct an inquiry on your behalf and then pass on the results to you. What happens if the Police investigate (with or without the cooperation of the complainants), and they find there is no solid case for a criminal prosecution? Can the AFL then ask them to hand over the details / results of their inquiry, for the AFL's own purposes?
Similarly for WorkSafe. It's possibly more likely that WorkSafe would find some breach(es) or WHS laws, and if they did they would probably go back to the AFL / Hawthorn for remediation of some kind. But SafeWork SA investigated the Crows camp, and found no breaches - that doesn't mean there weren't issues that the club needed to address.
Like it or not, it has to start with an AFL inquiry, with other agencies brought in afterwards, if appropriate / necessary. Not the other way around.