Dwayne Simpson (born 12 February 1981) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Fremantle Dockers The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represen ...

in 2001. He was originally drafted by the

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from

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in the WAFL with selection 59 in the 1998 AFL Draft but did not play a league game for them. At the end of the 2000 season he was traded back to West Australia in return for the 52nd selection. He played two games for Fremantle in 2001 before being delisted at the end of the season. Originally from Mullewa in the

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region of Western Australia, he is the nephew of actor

Ernie Dingo Ernest Ashley Dingo Member of the Order of Australia, AM (born 31 July 1956) is an Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australian actor, television presenter and comedian, originating from the Yamatji people of the Murchison (Western Australia), ...

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* * * 1981 births Fremantle Football Club players East Fremantle Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people People from Mullewa, Western Australia 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub