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Australian Football League (AFL) player and coach Robert Walls died at the age of 74, after using voluntary assisted dying laws.
Walls – a legend of the Carlton Football Club – won three prime ministers with the team as a player and one as a coach, and later became a media figure and expert.
He was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia, a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer, in 2023.
His family told the local media that he died surrounded by his children, in his apartment that the house of Victoria, the Cricket Ground of Melbourne, overlooked.
The state of Victoria introduced voluntary assisted dying laws in 2019, allowing a person in the late stages of advanced disease to end their lives with the help of medication, with the approval of two doctors.
In a statement, the Van Walls family said that he died on Thursday morning, local time, “After 14 years as a competition player, 16 years as a coach, 25 years as a commentator and a lifetime as a self -proclaimed ‘fan'”.
“After Robert had fought against cancer for more than two years, Robert did his way and chose to end a fight that he had spent more than 250 nights in the hospital in the last two years,” the statement continued.
In a message on X, Carlton FC fought the sporting icon and described him as “one of our Game’s Great Servants”.
Walls played more than 200 games for Carlton FC and won Premierships in 1968, 1970 and 1972.
His coaching career included a victory from 1987 for Carlton, as well as supervising the Brisbane Lions and Richmond Tigers. He retired in 1997 and became a well-known AFL commentator.
Walls wife died in cancer in 2006. He is survived by his three children and partner Julie, according to local media.
