The Boys' Club

Michael Warner is an award winning investigtaive journalist with Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper. He won the 2018 Alf Brown Award as the Australian Football Media Association's most outstanding performer and and has collected multiple Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards, News Awards and an Australian Sports Commission award for his coverage of the Essendon doping scandal, West Coast Eagles illicit drugs saga and Melbourne tanking affair.

In this talk, Michael will speak about his book, The Boys' Club, which outlines the scandals, secrets and deal-making that shaped one of the nation's most powerful institutions, the AFL. Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning investigative journalist Mick Warner delivers a fascinating insight into key figures and their networks.