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Time to Review The Funding of Sport?

Australian sport is at a crossroads. The next five to ten years are going to be very interesting, for not only those playing, but also those administering the sport. There is no doubt that the Government’s funding model is going

Taxing Times For Sport?

As all followers of sport in Australia know, funding not only a team, but funding a sport is a big issue. At club level what does a sponsor get for their investment? How many actually see a return on that

Less Will Not Mean More in New Hockey Nine’s Format

Imagine waking up to find that all the rules of the road had been scrapped over night. You could drive on either side of the road at whatever speed you liked. Chaos would rule. The reason we have rules and

ARU’s Wasted Opportunity

There is a famous saying, “The three things that never come back, the spent arrow, the spoken word and the lost opportunity.” The Australian Rugby Union would have done well to remember this line before they reached the decision to

Hopefully History Will Not Repeat

News that there may be no Hockey India League in 2018 seemed to send the Hockey world into shock. After all this was the blue riband hockey event away from Internationals. It was a high calibre competition attracting the best