Kicking 4 goals in the night premiership for Collingwood under coach Tom Hafey, 1979.
Won the inaugural Norm Goss for Best on Ground in the 1983 Premiership match for Preston.
Austen, who was the son of league footballer Cecil, spent most of the 1970s in a struggling Fitzroy team.
At Preston in 1982, Austen immediately made his mark by winning the J. J. Liston Trophy.
The following season he played in their Victorian Football Association premiership and he won the Norm Goss Memorial Medal as best afield in the Grand Final.