[11] Starling spent most of the year playing for Canberra's feeder club side Mounties in the Canterbury Cup NSW competition.

[13] Starling entered the first grade side from round 10 onwards, rotating as the starting hooker with Siliva Havili and was instrumental in Canberra's run to the finals.

[19] Starling played a total of 23 matches for Canberra in the 2023 NRL season as the club finished 8th on the table and qualified for the finals.

[21] *denotes season competing On 5 December 2020, Starling was arrested and charged with assaulting police after a fight broke out at the Shady Palms Bar Restaurant in Kincumber on the Central Coast.

Starling was reportedly charged with five counts of assaulting an officer in the execution of duty, affray and resisting arrest.

[23] On 20 October 2021, it was reported by the media that Starling had been arrested by NSW Police after an altercation at a Central Coast Bar.

Starling was charged with threatening or causing injury to potential juror or witness and behaving in offensive manner in or near public place or school.