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All the best fashion from AFL's night of nights

ABC News (Sport)

21 Sept 2026 18:25 AEST 1 min read Rewritten in plain language

AFL Sport Fashion

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22 Sept 2026 06:30 AEST the headline was changed: ~~AFL stars and partners hit~~ All the ~~red carpet for Brownlow Medal~~best fashion from AFL's night of nights

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AFL stars and their dates are walking the red carpet ahead of the 2026 Brownlow Medal presentation.
Here's what the players and their dates are wearing:

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AFL stars and their dates are walking the red carpet ahead of the 2026 Brownlow Medal presentation.

The league's best players have swapped football shorts for their finest suits for the presentation of the best-and-fairest award at Melbourne's Crown Palladium.

Here's what the players and their dates are wearing:

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Niral Score 13.9 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Mood 55.2 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious, sourcing

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert Sourcing 0 unattributednamed sources

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Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC News (Sport)as they published this story	13.9	3	0.1	55.2
Mundane Readneutralized from ABC News (Sport)	13.9	3	0.1	55.2

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