In Australia, footballers are represented by Professional Footballers Australia -- the PFA -- who, thanks to its tradition of competence since its founding, has taken on a significant role in the direction of the sport.

These days, the PFA has recently butted heads with Football Australia and its CEO, James Johnson, over a mooted Domestic Transfer System in Australian football, with duelling statements made to ESPN in the wake of a Johnson interview in which he mooted imposing a system on certain segments of the Australian game. 

In the third of Beyond the Lead’s interviews with the major players in the Australian football scene, PFA co-chief executive Beau Busch spoke with ESPN’s Joey Lynch to provide a better insight into the union’s perspective on a domestic transfer system, as well as their views on a national second division, player development and the intertwining of football and human rights.

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