Jason Mifsud’s apparent role in the latest controversy over indigenous AFL players should make his position as the AFL’s community engagement officer completely untenable, but AFL House clearly doesn’t enjoy admitting error so he is reprimanded and counselled.
Nevertheless, AussieRulesBlog wouldn’t have swapped places with Mifsud at his press conference as his boss savagely cut across him to stop him putting his other foot in his mouth.
Just to refresh readers’ memory, Mifsud joined — a week later — with The Age’s Caroline Wilson in accusing James Hird and Paul Roos of advocating race-based recruiting. This accusation was nonsensical, as we commented at the time.
Then, more recently, Mifsud mysteriously took two months to report a conversation with Matt Rendell that had “deeply offended” him. Three strikes. The dust still has not settled on this one with reports that the AFL are to offer Rendell a job.
Whatever his other qualities may be, Mifsud has demonstrated a spectacular lack of judgement and seriously damaged the industry’s standing as a leader in indigenous issues.
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