post traumatic stress syndrome, was awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages and around $71,000 to cover legal costs. No punitive damages were awarded, although this is not unusual in Australian civil law. In February 2007 Clark appealed the findings of the jury in the Stingel matter. His notice of appeal alleged the verdict to be 'perverse', that the trial judge misdirected the jury regarding failures to call corroborative witnesses on the part of the complainant, that the trial judge erred in ruling against the admission of certain evidence, and that the fairness of the trial process had been compromised by pre-trial publicity. In December 2007 he lost his appeal against the damages awarded against him. Clark never paid the $20,000 compensation to Stingel and as of 2013 owed more than $300,000 to her lawyers. Although Clark declared bankruptcy in 2009, which was extended by five years in June 2012, he made an unsuccessful $1.25 million bid in June 2013 for a hotel in Warrnambool. In September 2011, Clark was one of the successful complainants in a racial discrimination case involving Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt, who in a 2009 article claimed that Clark had used his "part Aboriginal ethnicity" to gain social benefits. Clark said he took part in the action because of the general "tone" of Bolt's writing. In Eatock v Bolt, the Federal Court of Australia held that two articles written by Bolt and published in The Herald Sun had contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. In August 2021 Clark was ordered to stand trial relating to the alleged misappropriation of about $2 million belonging to the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust over a period of around 30 years, along with his wife Trudy and son Jeremy. See also Ray Robinson (ATSIC) References Further reading 1952 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Indigenous Australian politicians Australian indigenous rights activists Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australian sportsperson-politicians Claremont Football Club players Subiaco Football Club players Norwood Football Club players