Remarks at Community Afternoon Tea, Hamilton
Obviously, footy fans right around Australia woke up to terrible news this morning. It was a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful tragedy.
Phil Walsh began his AFL career here in Hamilton. He was a very well-known and very well respected local from a very large and very well respected local family.
There is a pall over Hamilton, there is a pall over AFL more generally today and, like Dan, I certainly would want to extend my deepest condolences to his family, to his friends, to his colleagues and perhaps we might just pause for a moment or two of silence.
Thanks very much ladies and gentlemen.
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