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Strange article in shm today about the razor gang and cutting funds to sporting bodies.
It talks about the 16 million promised, however the ALP offered 32 million during the election and said they would put Socceroos on free to air TV, so whats with 16 million.
Anyone know any background to this article.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/football/ffa-set-to-survive/2008/02/06/1202233948797.html
FFA set to survive Tanner's razor gang
Email Printer friendly version Normal font Large font Jacquelin Magnay
February 7, 2008
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FOOTBALL Federation Australia looks as if it might survive savage cuts that have befallen other football codes as part of the Federal Government's withdrawal of $243 million of "irresponsible spending" promises made for the current financial year.
Australian Rugby League has lost the $10 million pledged by former prime minister John Howard to establish a hall of fame and the Australian Rugby Union has had its $25 million Queensland-based national rugby academy abandoned.
Among other sports targeted, fishing lost $3 million earmarked for a hall of fame, and racing has had the government's $5 million contribution to a water-saving strategy at Flemington withdrawn.
But FFA chief executive Ben Buckley said the substantial commitments to football - a four-year $16 million government grant - would be maintained. "We have had no signal that anything would change. We would like to think that it may even go the other way," Buckley said.
The Federal Government's $6.5 million commitment to the Bradman Cricket Museum also appears to have survived.
Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday announced spending cuts of $643 million over the next four years, designed to help rein in inflation.
Tanner said the former government made a substantial number of "irresponsible" new spending commitments before the last election.
Their funding had to be included in appropriation bills to be tabled in Parliament next week, but they have now been reversed.
The ARL was to have received $3 million this financial year and $7 million in 2008-09 for the hall of fame, tentatively proposed for the Sydney Football Stadium. Other venues were in the process of being considered until yesterday's email notification from the minister's office.
ARL chief executive Geoff Carr said it was "extremely disappointing" that the code's contribution to encouraging children to be active during the past 100 years had been withdrawn without consultation.
"We have had little or no government support in getting children to play rugby league," he said. "We pour about $8 million a year into schools, with 65 development officers to get kids active, yet the government does this."
The cuts come as government spending in other sports is being reassessed. Tanner said the spending cuts were an initial and modest down-payment on further cuts to be announced in the federal budget.
Already, budgets for the programs of the Australian Sports Commission and the AIS are being slashed by about 4 per cent across the board.
The AIS gymnastics program and other development programs of non-Olympic sports are under immediate threat of being abandoned.
Meanwhile Australia's influence in world sport was heightened yesterday when International Olympic Committee member Phil Coles was appointed a vice president of the World Taekwondo Federation. Coles, a three-time Olympian in the sport of canoe-kayak, replaces Cha Sok Park, who died last year.
It talks about the 16 million promised, however the ALP offered 32 million during the election and said they would put Socceroos on free to air TV, so whats with 16 million.
Anyone know any background to this article.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/football/ffa-set-to-survive/2008/02/06/1202233948797.html
FFA set to survive Tanner's razor gang
Email Printer friendly version Normal font Large font Jacquelin Magnay
February 7, 2008
Advertisement
FOOTBALL Federation Australia looks as if it might survive savage cuts that have befallen other football codes as part of the Federal Government's withdrawal of $243 million of "irresponsible spending" promises made for the current financial year.
Australian Rugby League has lost the $10 million pledged by former prime minister John Howard to establish a hall of fame and the Australian Rugby Union has had its $25 million Queensland-based national rugby academy abandoned.
Among other sports targeted, fishing lost $3 million earmarked for a hall of fame, and racing has had the government's $5 million contribution to a water-saving strategy at Flemington withdrawn.
But FFA chief executive Ben Buckley said the substantial commitments to football - a four-year $16 million government grant - would be maintained. "We have had no signal that anything would change. We would like to think that it may even go the other way," Buckley said.
The Federal Government's $6.5 million commitment to the Bradman Cricket Museum also appears to have survived.
Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday announced spending cuts of $643 million over the next four years, designed to help rein in inflation.
Tanner said the former government made a substantial number of "irresponsible" new spending commitments before the last election.
Their funding had to be included in appropriation bills to be tabled in Parliament next week, but they have now been reversed.
The ARL was to have received $3 million this financial year and $7 million in 2008-09 for the hall of fame, tentatively proposed for the Sydney Football Stadium. Other venues were in the process of being considered until yesterday's email notification from the minister's office.
ARL chief executive Geoff Carr said it was "extremely disappointing" that the code's contribution to encouraging children to be active during the past 100 years had been withdrawn without consultation.
"We have had little or no government support in getting children to play rugby league," he said. "We pour about $8 million a year into schools, with 65 development officers to get kids active, yet the government does this."
The cuts come as government spending in other sports is being reassessed. Tanner said the spending cuts were an initial and modest down-payment on further cuts to be announced in the federal budget.
Already, budgets for the programs of the Australian Sports Commission and the AIS are being slashed by about 4 per cent across the board.
The AIS gymnastics program and other development programs of non-Olympic sports are under immediate threat of being abandoned.
Meanwhile Australia's influence in world sport was heightened yesterday when International Olympic Committee member Phil Coles was appointed a vice president of the World Taekwondo Federation. Coles, a three-time Olympian in the sport of canoe-kayak, replaces Cha Sok Park, who died last year.
