AFLCA NO MORE Round

Saturday’s AFLCA Premier League NO MORE Round marks a significant milestone for the campaign’s association with local football, with all five Premier League clubs now having made the commitment to develop their own in-house club Family Violence Action Plans.        

As a part of those Action Plans, each of the clubs has, over the past four weeks, brought together their playing group for a family violence education session presented by local NO MORE Campaign representatives.

Similar education sessions have also been delivered through the season with Division 1 clubs Ti Tree, Western Aranda, Ltyentye Apurte and Plenty Highway, and Division 2 clubs Laramba and Mulga Bore.

Reigning Division 1 premiers Yuendumu add their name to the list next week. 

As well as those 12 AFLCA affiliated clubs, AFL Barkly premiers Sporties Spitfires and the CAFC Redtails representative side have also worked alongside the NO MORE Campaign to better educate their players about family violence issues.

Part of the off-field personal development program for the APY Lands representative team that played AFLCA Country a fortnight ago, also included a family violence education session presented by NO MORE.       

This weekend players in the two Premier League games will show their support for the NO MORE message by linking arms pre game.

The linking of arms is a symbolic statement the campaign uses to emphasize that violence can be challenged through strength of numbers, if the non-violent majority join together and say NO MORE.      

Local NO MORE Campaign workers Roy Arbon and Stan Coombe have spent the past 12 months encouraging clubs to make a difference in the community through their Action Plans, and Arbon highlighted courageous club leadership as the key to getting most teams in the region on board. 

“Credit goes to the leadership at each of the clubs that have agreed to have an Action Plan, as what they are doing isn’t compulsory and it isn’t something that clubs here, or in most places for that matter, have ever done before”, said Arbon.

“Our short term aim from here is to get the last few AFLCA clubs on the same page and then work on getting clubs and leagues from other sports to also develop Action Plans, as well as making further inroads into the AFL Barkly.”     

Saturday’s AFLCA Premier League NO MORE Round marks a significant milestone for the campaign’s association with local football, with all five Premier League clubs now having made the commitment to develop their own in-house club Family Violence Action Plans.        

As a part of those Action Plans, each of the clubs has, over the past four weeks, brought together their playing group for a family violence education session presented by local NO MORE Campaign representatives.

Similar education sessions have also been delivered through the season with Division 1 clubs Ti Tree, Western Aranda, Ltyentye Apurte and Plenty Highway, and Division 2 clubs Laramba and Mulga Bore.

Reigning Division 1 premiers Yuendumu add their name to the list next week. 

As well as those 12 AFLCA affiliated clubs, AFL Barkly premiers Sporties Spitfires and the CAFC Redtails representative side have also worked alongside the NO MORE Campaign to better educate their players about family violence issues.

Part of the off-field personal development program for the APY Lands representative team that played AFLCA Country a fortnight ago, also included a family violence education session presented by NO MORE.       

This weekend players in the two Premier League games will show their support for the NO MORE message by linking arms pre game.

The linking of arms is a symbolic statement the campaign uses to emphasize that violence can be challenged through strength of numbers, if the non-violent majority join together and say NO MORE.      

Local NO MORE Campaign workers Roy Arbon and Stan Coombe have spent the past 12 months encouraging clubs to make a difference in the community through their Action Plans, and Arbon highlighted courageous club leadership as the key to getting most teams in the region on board. 

“Credit goes to the leadership at each of the clubs that have agreed to have an Action Plan, as what they are doing isn’t compulsory and it isn’t something that clubs here, or in most places for that matter, have ever done before”, said Arbon.

“Our short term aim from here is to get the last few AFLCA clubs on the same page and then work on getting clubs and leagues from other sports to also develop Action Plans, as well as making further inroads into the AFL Barkly.”