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Makaela Tuhakaraina

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ110895481 ↗
Source-derived summary

Makaela Tuhakaraina (born 23 August 2003) is an Australian rules footballer, who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

Tuhakaraina was drafted by Fremantle with their fourth selection, and 38th overall in the 2021 AFL Women's draft. A former junior rugby league player, she switched to playing Australian rules football in 2020 when COVID-19 related led to the women's rugby league season being cancelled due to a lack of teams.

Tuhakaraina made her debut in the opening round of 2022 AFL Women's season 6, playing as a small forward.

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“Makaela Tuhakaraina” enters the record as australian rules footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Makaela, Tuhakaraina and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2021, 2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-08-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Makaela, Tuhakaraina and Australian.
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“Makaela Tuhakaraina” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Makaela, Tuhakaraina and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110895481. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2021, 2020 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Makaela Tuhakaraina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.