Infamous AFL racism incidents
SOME INFAMOUS RACISM INCIDENTS IN THE AFL
* 1993: St Kilda's Nicky Winmar lifts his jumper and points to his skin after copping racial abuse from Collingwood's crowd at Victoria Park. "People forget that words have a big impact. They can lift a person or destroy a person. So that day I responded by saying to those people, and I still say it today: 'I'm black and I'm proud'," Winmar later said.
* 1995: Essendon's Michael Long is racially taunted by Collingwood's Damian Monkhorst during the Anzac Day match. Long made an official complaint which led to mediation, after which the pair shook hands - though Long remained clearly upset. The controversy led the AFL to create its racial anti-vilification policy.
* 1999: St Kilda's Peter Everitt racially abuses Melbourne's Scott Chisholm during a game. Everitt is suspended for four games, donates $20,000 to a charity of Chisholm's choice and undertakes a racial awareness training program.
* 2011: Western Bulldogs' Justin Sherman racially vilifies an undisclosed Gold Coast Suns opponent. Sherman is banned for four games, ordered to attend an education program and pay $5000 to a charity chosen by the Suns.
* 2012: The AFL's national community engagement manager Jason Mifsud claims Adelaide's recruitment manager Matthew Rendell suggested clubs may adopt a policy of only recruiting Aboriginal players with at least one white parent. Rendell apologises and resigns, saying his comments were taken out of context.
* 2013: Sydney's Adam Goodes is called an ape by a 13-year-old Collingwood supporter during a game. Goodes points the girl out to security, saying he was distressed by the comment but adds: "People need to get around her. She's 13, she's uneducated."
* 2014: A 70-year-old spectator is reported to police for making racists comments to Sydney Swans players Lance Franklin and Goodes during a match against Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.
* 2014: North Melbourne's Majak Daw is racially abused by a spectator during a match against Hawthorn in Launceston. The male spectator is evicted from the ground.
* 2014: West Coast's Nic Naitanui is racially abused on Twitter. The offender pleads guilty to three counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence and is banned from creating a Twitter account.
* 2015: Sydney's Goodes is frequently booed by spectators, believing the jeering to be racist. Goodes steps down from playing but returns after widespread support. He retired at the end of the season.
* 2016: A banana is thrown at Adelaide's Eddie Betts by a female Port Adelaide supporter during a game. "A banana being thrown at an indigenous man is unambiguously racist," AFL chief Gillon McLachlan says. Port suspend the woman's club membership indefinitely
* 2017: Adelaide's Betts is racially abused by a Port fan during a game, and by another Port supporter on social media. Port's Paddy Ryder is also racially vilified by a Crows supporter during the same game.
