Hawthorn Hawks face massive financial settlement with former coach Alastair Clarkson over cultural safety review

The league cleared Clarkson, Fagan and Burt of any wrongdoing under the AFL’s rules in May this year, and announced a separate investigation into Hawthorn’s commissioning and oversight of the Binmada report.

AFL general counsel Stephen Meade’s review has involved hundreds of emails between Hawthorn officials, directors, Egan and First Nations families.

Egan declined to comment on his or Hawthorn’s handling of the cultural safety review when he was contacted on Tuesday.

Fagan, who has since coached Brisbane Lions to a grand final, and Burt, who now heads Caulfield Grammar’s coaching and high performance, took a leave of absence from their jobs and still face significant legal expenses. However, the damage to Clarkson’s reputation was compounded by the severity of the claims made against him including the allegation that he pressured a player and his partner to terminate a…