The daughter of the late rugby league great Steve Folkes has delivered an emotional plea to help players suffering from brain degeneration, addressing day three of a Senate inquiry into concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports.
Four of the nation's sporting codes — the National Rugby League, Rugby Australia, Boxing Australia and Football Australia — fronted the hearing in Canberra on Wednesday and acknowledged the link between head trauma and serious neurodegenerative disease.
The stand-out submission was from Hayley Shaw, Folkes's daughter, who detailed the difficulties the former premiership-winning player and coach endured in the final years before his death due to...