Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.
Football
Chiefs break ranks on drugs
Caroline Wilson Two AFL club bosses would feel uncomfortable knowing the identity of drug offenders.
Seven clubs vulnerable on drugs
Caroline Wilson At least seven AFL clubs were named in a confidential briefing to competition chiefs by the Australian Crime Commission as having illicit drug problems.
AFL
Drugs collision course
Caroline Wilson The AFL clubs appear on a collision course with their players over holiday drug testing, as several club chiefs confirmed they would take on the players union over target testing of suspected illegal...
AFL to disclose player drugs tests
Caroline Wilson THE AFL will reveal today how many players tested positive for illegal drugs last season.
AFL drugs policy wins supporters
Caroline Wilson Anyone who followed the great AFL drug war of 2005 would understand the significance of yesterday's revelation.
Clubs to target-test players
Caroline Wilson AFL players will be drug tested more than ever before as part of a raft of reforms to the competition's illicit drugs policy, to be outlined at Thursday's conference of the 18 clubs.
AFL
Facelift for AFL rule team
Caroline Wilson AFL proposes overhaul of Laws of the Games Committee, with league's new football boss having detected club disenchantment with the rules process.
AFL
Roos under scrutiny over doctor
Caroline Wilson AFL-ASADA probe into performance-enhancing substances could be widened to include North Melbourne.
Right thing for Hird to do is step down
Caroline Wilson In early February, as James Hird's world began to unravel, he still didn't get it. Sitting alongside his chairman and his chief executive at AFL head office, the Essendon legend, premiership captain...
AFL
Heat may be easing on Bombers but message deserves flak
Caroline Wilson AFL boss Andrew Demetriou believes Dons in far better shape than Cronulla.
A game of both shock and awe
Caroline Wilson Off-field scandals and AFL pre-seasons have come together with toxic regularity since Andrew Demetriou joined the league at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Swan's song just a noise for Magpies
Caroline Wilson Anyone who doubted that Dane Swan was a law unto himself need only to witness the past 48 hours.
AFL
Bomber review to examine 'irregular practices'
Caroline Wilson and Jon Pierik Essendon chairman David Evans has announced a "full external and independent review of governance and processes of the club" in the wake of the club's recent drugs crisis.
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Thompson, Robson the likely fall guys
Caroline Wilson Evans is holding fast to one relationship he sees as crucial to the Don's future: James Hird.
Dees push to have fine halved
Caroline Wilson Melbourne remains hopeful of diluting its expected $500,000 fine due to alleged tanking.
Anti-doping agencies have dropped the ball
Caroline Wilson IT IS beyond doubt that Essendon adopted unusual and irresponsible practices in transforming so much of its football program into a body-building laboratory during 2012.
Football
Dons in the gun over practices
Caroline Wilson The high-performance program at Essendon Football Club came under the scrutiny of the Australian Crime Commission and was one key element of the damning report released on Thursday.
Hird at risk as AFL admits Bombers at the centre of scandal
Caroline Wilson The football future of Essendon's favourite son and the man who gave up a comfortable post-playing retirement to lead his club back to glory now hangs in the balance.
League seeks answers from ACC on player phone taps
Caroline Wilson, Matt Murnane THE AFL Players' Association will seek clarification from the Australian Crime Commission amid concerns that some players have been the targets of phone tapping.
Player unease over phone taps
Matt Murnane and Caroline Wilson AFL Players Association to seek clarification amid concerns players phones may have been tapped by Australian Crime Commission.
