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Culture of AFLW Gets a Tick, but Burnout an Emerging Issue

A recent AFLUA survey completed by fifty-eight AFLW umpires has provided some key insights into how the AFLW umpiring cohort experienced season 9. The survey, conducted in November 2023 indicates that umpiring in the AFLW was largely a positive experience, but...

2023 AGM Wrap-Up

Monday night saw the AFLUA annual general meeting held for 2023. Each year the AGM provides a forum for the CEO and President to address members, deliver annual reports, move motions, announce award winners, and take questions. President Chris Donlon’s r...

Mystery solved! A Merri Christmas…

One of the most frequent questions asked of the association is "What happened to the VFL Reserve Grade Umpires Association honour board?" Listing office bearers of the VFLRGUA from 1970-1983, the board was hung in the Light Car Club of Australia rooms in Qu...

Repost: What ad-land can learn from AFL Boundary Umpires

Advertiser Sophie Mateer recently penned an opinion piece in the media industry magazine B&T. In the article Sophie "reflects on the lessons that media execs can learn from a very unlikely place - AFL boundary umpires." The article can be found here on ...

Trent Bowes: On 50 Games and More

In round ten of Season Eight of the AFLW, when Geelong trounced Hawthorne at GMHBA stadium, umpiring history was, as ever, quietly being made on the boundary. Trent Bowes would walk off the ground that day as just the second umpire in the history of the compet...