Austin Robertson, Jr.

Austin Robertson Jr.
Personal information
Full name	Austin Christopher Robertson
Date of birth	(1943-04-29) 29 April 1943 (age 74)
Place of birth	North Perth, Western Australia
Height / weight	182 cm / 83 kg
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1962–65, 1967–74	Subiaco	251 (1211)
1966	South Melbourne	018 00(60)
Total		269 (1271)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1963–71	Western Australia	10 (44)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1966. ² State and international statistics correct as of 1971.
Career highlights
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee 2015 Subiaco premiership player 1973 WAFL leading goalkicker 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968–72 Subiaco leading goalkicker 1962–65, 1967–74 Subiaco best and fairest 1965, 1968 South Melbourne leading goalkicker 1966 Subiaco Team of the Century (full-forward)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Austin Christopher Robertson (born 29 April 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Subiaco in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). He is the son of former South Melbourne player Austin Robertson Sr.

Robertson was a full forward and by the time he left Subiaco in 1974 he had amassed a WANFL record goal tally of 1211 goals, topped the WANFL goalkicking a record eight times against a previous best of six by George Doig and Bernie Naylor and kicked over 100 goals in a season six times.

He was a premiership player with Subiaco in 1973, the only Grand Final of his career. While playing for Subiaco he averaged 4.82 goals a game, being held goalless in a match only five times–two of which were in his final season when affected by injury–and in 1968 kicked 162 goals. He spent a season with his father's club South Melbourne in 1966, kicking 60 goals in 18 games, which was the most by a player from the club for the year.

After his football career had ended, Robertson was employed by businessman Kerry Packer and was one of the central figures in the establishment of World Series Cricket in 1977. Robertson subsequently managed many of Australia's leading cricketers over a period of 30 years, including Shane Warne.

He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

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