alison_b Wrote:
My hope is that the kids' sports will become better organised...
currently the travel involved in getting kids to games is ridiculous,
sometimes driving for twice the time the game actually takes
It's not a good use of resources, and means instead of the youngsters
having, say, 3 hours of possible activity, they spend 2 hours sitting
in a car.

Bring back local leagues!!!

aliYes, i have noticed that a lot of amateur sporting organizations either
have, or are considering geographic proximity when allocating teams to
divisions. A lot of junior competitions are run like this already and
have been for a long time. It makes sense, and you can still have your
cup type events or carnivals for sports like soccer, basketball and
netball.

These changes will hit us all, which is why it is annoying that
politicians (predictably) take the easy route, because most of them
wont be around when the sh*t hits the fan. Changes could be made now
that would start addressing the problem realistically but they won't
happen while people still think this is solely a problem of the greed
of oil companies and governments rather than a physical reality only
exacerbated by those factors.

Pretty much par for the course in a country that has never been notable
for people adapting to the reality of its physical environment, witness
housing design, land use based upon European rainfall patterns and soil
and the numerous attempts at transplanting inappropriate foreign species
into Australian ecologies.


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deejbah