Archive for December, 2004

Subiaco Oval

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

The WA Football Commission are currently in negotiation with LG over naming rights to the oval, having determined that under their lease they DO have the right to name the oval. Interesting how any change brings out the traditionalists - those who believe that “Subiaco Oval” is a sacred place somehow responsible for precious memories […]

Ben on cricket

Monday, December 20th, 2004

There’s a bit of a sports theme running here at the moment folks. Been talking to my brother Ben, who’s also a cricket lover, about the present difficulties of the WACA and he had this comment:
The problem for the WACA is that they have an unused resource during winter. They tried to secure the Rugby […]

Cricket in Perth, 2005

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Went to see the Pakis play WA at the WACA yesterday; first time I’d been to the ground in a long time. The redevelopment has the place looking very smart; I liked the use of the flat grassed area kids can use to play cricket while their parents watch the serious stuff.
The match was poorly […]

Why Perth should blog

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

This is part of a talk I gave at the Blogging at the End of the Earth conference.
I want to talk more about how we can be improve our presence on the net. As a state we could institutionalise blogging and use that to increase our voice and our influence on the internet. This would […]