❓ Hon Greg Smith asks about government support for Westar Rules games in regional WA and community interest. Hon N.F. Moore details funding, participation numbers, and anecdotal evidence of success, while also humorously denying support for a particular team.
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Can the minister provide details to the House about the support that Sport and Recreation gives to Westar Rules games played in regional areas and about the level of community support that exists for these games? Hon N.F. MOORE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
The Ministry of Sport and Recreation has provided funding support to Westar Rules through its country sport enrichment scheme. The scheme, launched in August 1998, provides funds to help sports visit country areas to conduct elite sporting events plus clinics and coaching workshops. Westar Rules has been supported since the inception of the scheme to take fixtured games to various regional centres including Kalgoorlie, Exmouth, Esperance, Karratha, Moora, Kununurra and Toodyay. Total funding from the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to support these games over the three years amounts to $200 941. The total number of participants involved in either watching these games or taking part in clinics-workshops is approximately 27 800. This figure indicates substantial community support. Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Having spent last Saturday at Toodyay to watch the game between Claremont and Perth in the rain - which was regrettable; it was the only day that it rained - I need to put to rest the suggestion that because I was wearing a blue and yellow jacket I was in any way supporting Claremont. That is not correct at all. Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.D. Griffiths: I knew there was some good in you. Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE: Quite right. Even taking into account the fact that the weather in Toodyay on Saturday was not pleasant, there was a good crowd and it was an excellent game of football. With this program we are now getting into country Western Australia top-class Westar Rules games which are drawing very good crowds. Probably the second biggest crowd for a Westar Rules game this year was in Karratha, where some 5 000 people attended a night game, and some 3 000 people attended a game in Kununurra. Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon Ken Travers: Wait until East Perth wins the final. Then you will find a big crowd. Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
Hon N.F. MOORE: East Perth did not play well at Karratha; it came second. This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
This scheme is an opportunity for the Government to provide some support to Westar Rules, which can be congratulated for grabbing hold of the initiative that this scheme offers and getting top-class football into country towns. Some of the best games I have seen this year have been Westar Rules games in the country, and that even compares with some of the Australian Football League games that we have had the unfortunate pleasure of watching this year.
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