> A couple of years ago Hawthorn's Kaitlyn Ashmore, a Dja Dja Wurrung woman, spent some time in Alice Springs.
> She was immediately taken by the gift for footy so many kids had up there, but knew the pathways for development were limited.
> "I've been out to the communities … the talent up there is incredible," Ashmore said on the eve of the AFLW's Indigenous Round.
> "But it's just getting them down here, or getting them in a program, and then keeping them in there and making them feel culturally safe."
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