Dustin Martin Parents: Meet Dustin Martin’s Dad Shane Martin, And Mother Kathy Martin

Dustin Martin is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Dustin Martin was drafted by Richmond with the third pick in the 2009 national draft, and made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2010 season.

Dustin Martin was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, to a Māori father, Shane Martin, and an Australian mother, Kathy Knight.

Dustin Martin’s father Shane Martin has family connections to the Ngāti Maru tribe on New Zealand’s north island.

Dustin Martin’s parents separated when he was 14 and Martin moved to Sydney with his father, leaving school at Castlemaine High School after Year 9 and taking up full-time work.

Dustin Martin worked various roles at his father’s transport business including as a forklift driver while also assisting his father’s girlfriend’s sports apparel business. In total he worked regular twelve hour days, later saying he hated “working long days” in what was “not a very good job.”

While in Sydney, he continued to play football, starting off with the Ingleburn Magpies Junior Australian Football Club’s under 16 side.

After a year in Sydney, Dustin Martin moved back to Victoria to live with his mother by late December 2007.