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20 February – Queensland Police Service commissioner Katarina Carroll announces she is stepping down from her position on 1 March 2024, five months before her contract expires. [53] Labor senator for Western Australia Louise Pratt announces she will step down at the 2025 Australian federal election citing health reasons. [54]
The league was a precursor to the nearby Cairns, Queensland league. In 1955, the Townsville Australian Football League began. Two years later the Cairns Australian Football League was formed. AFL was also introduced to Mount Isa. In the early 1970s, organised leagues started appearing in Mackay, the Darling Downs and Central Queensland.
AFL Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia.It is widely regarded as the strongest regional Australian rules football league in Queensland and has a large base at Cazalys Stadium which has staged Australian Football League matches.
There are 11 regional club competitions, the highest profile of which are the semi-professional Queensland Australian Football League and AFL Cairns. It is governed by AFL Queensland. According to Ausplay there are 51,941 adult players with a per capita rate of 1.2%, just under half of which are female, and 30,563 children. [1]
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AFL Cairns boasts a strong local competition producing many talented players for the national competition and regular AFL matches hosted there. However Cairns and North Queensland is often cited as lacking the supporter base (being far behind the Barassi Line) and population to make a standalone AFL franchise successful. A Northern Australia ...
Melbourne won the McClelland Trophy, the format of which was altered to a club championship including results from both the AFL and AFL Women's 2023 seasons. Under the points system, Melbourne won 128 points with a percentage of 142.3, clear of second-place Brisbane Lions , who won 116 points and 126.4 percentage.
3.1 Queensland Football Association (Brisbane-Gold Coast-Ipswich-Sunshine Coast) ... AFL Cairns. Cairns City Lions; Cairns Saints; Centrals Trinity Beach Bulldogs;