Footy star launches bombshell lawsuit

A young rugby league star has accused his former club, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, of “unlawful corporal punishment” in a bombshell $4m lawsuit. Twenty-two-year-old Jackson Topine, who was born in New Zealand but captained both New South Wales and Australia at schoolboy level, is a second rower who has played 16 games for the NRL club. He last represented the Bulldogs in 2023, having also played for the Maori All Stars in 2021. The Australian reports that lawyers representing Topine, in …