{"id":860159,"date":"2026-08-18T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860159\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:40:11","slug":"australia-news-live-afl-boss-responds-to-sydney-swans-allegations-ndis-cuts-to-become-law-labor-gambling-reform-passes-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860159\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: AFL boss responds to Sydney Swans allegations; NDIS cuts to become law; Labor gambling reform passes House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Premier Chris Minns has weighed in on the police investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving a group of Sydney Swans players in the early hours of Monday morning. <\/p>\n

\u201cAn investigation must come before football. I mean, ultimately, this is seemingly a serious situation \u2026 Organisations can\u2019t be seen as getting on as if it\u2019s business as usual when the gravity of the charges are so serious,\u201d he told ABC Sydney radio this morning. <\/p>\n

\"NSWNSW Premier Chris Minns.Sitthixay Ditthavong<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, that\u2019s not just for reputation reasons. It\u2019s not just so that you can keep your reputation as a family-friendly club or the high esteem in which you\u2019re held in the community. It\u2019s so that if there are potential victims, they feel like they\u2019re being listened to and the consequences of the alleged actions are being taken seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n

Asked whether the AFL should implement a no-fault stand-down clause<\/a> \u2013 whereby a sports organisation can suspend a player when they are charged with a serious criminal offence, but before a court outcome is delivered \u2013 Minns said: <\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to work for the NRL, and it\u2019s important again not for the reputation of the game, but to send the message that these things are being taken seriously, not just in the courts and the police, but within the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Premier Chris Minns has weighed in on the police investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-860159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860159","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=860159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}