AFL platitudes are easy. Real action on gender-based violence is tougher but desperately needed | Jonathan Horn

On-field activations are all well and good but they mean nothing if a stronger stand is not taken with the likes of Tarryn ThomasAt the Adelaide Oval on Thursday night, and in eight other AFL games this weekend, there will be an “activation”. Players, coaches and umpires will link arms in the centre square and the ground announcer will tell us that enough is enough, that we have to stop killing women and that the only acceptable number of dead women is zero. Everyone will bow, the in