{"id":332059,"date":"2025-12-07T04:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332059\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:42:26","slug":"north-melbournes-all-conquering-aflw-side-given-key-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332059\/","title":{"rendered":"North Melbourne&#8217;s all-conquering AFLW side given key to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                They dominated in the AFLW, now the city of Melbourne is the Kangaroos&#8217; oyster\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Ash Riddell is seen celebrating North Melbourne&#8217;s premiership win on November 29, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>NORTH Melbourne&#8217;s record-breaking AFLW side has been given the Key to the City of Melbourne in recognition of the Roos&#8217; stellar run in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroos, who have won 27 games in a row in a run that stretches back to round three, 2024, won their second premiership in as many years on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, the side was presented with the honour at their best and fairest awards night.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Key to the City&#8217; is an award given by the City of Melbourne to recognise outstanding achievements in sport, entertainment or humanitarian work, or who have contributed greatly to the ideals of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Other former recipients include Dolly Parton, Olivia Newton John, Muhammad Ali, Robbie Williams, Cathy Freeman, John Farnham and Dame Edna Everage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They dominated in the AFLW, now the city of Melbourne is the Kangaroos&#8217; oyster Ash Riddell is seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-332059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}