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The Royal Commission we should have? The 2013 Essendon Football Club supplements scandal (Rebroadcast from The Westminster Tradition)


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This week on the Take on Board podcast, I am sharing an episode from The Westminster Tradition, a podcast I love and listen to regularly. I was listening to one of their episodes from April 2024 and thought, 'I have to share all this governance goodness with the Take on Board Community'. So I reached out to the hosts of The Westminster Tradition and they gave me the go-ahead. So this week, that's what we're doing.

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“Lack of good governance is why good people did bad things at Essendon Football Club”. So says Lindsay Tanner, former Minister for Finance, and President of the Essendon Football Club from 2015.


In this mini-series, Caroline tries to convince us there are lessons for public servants from the Essendon Football Club supplement scandal in 2013.


In this episode, we talk about what happened in Essendon itself. The dangers of charismatic new leaders, new brooms through an organisation, and a failure to take controls and risk management seriously.


Referenced in this episode:

• Lindsay Tanner ‘Governance lessons from the Essendon scandal’

•The Long Haul podcast, Episode Two: Inside the Blackest Day

•Ziggy Switkowski report into failures of governance at Essendon Football Club

Dr Bruce Reid letter to Essendon Football Club about his concerns about the supplement regime

Intro grab is Lindsay Tanner, Governance lessons from the Essendon scandal.


Outro grab is Nathan Lovett-Murray and Emma Murray, The Long Haul podcast, Episode Two: Inside the Blackest Day.


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