News: Recreation
Port Phillip Bay death prompts calls for more jet-ski restrictions
Parties are demanding a greater separation of swimmers and jet-skiers in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay after a man struck and injured while swimming off Port Melbourne on Friday...
Feb 27, 2012
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Aquatics
Registrations open for 2012 International Awards for Liveable Communities
Registrations are now open for the 2012 International Awards for Liveable Communities (the 'LivCom Awards') which focus on international best practice in environmental...
Feb 27, 2012
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Parks
Dreamworld confirmed as home of Big Brother 2012
Gold Coast theme park, Dreamworld, has confirmed that it is to host the hit television series Big Brother Australia in 2012. Amid a flood of speculation as to where the famed...
Feb 26, 2012
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Children's sport program expands internationally
Leading children's multi-sport program provider SportyBots has announced its expansion overseas with its first internationally licensed centre launching in Kuwait. Sportybots...
Feb 25, 2012
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Play
YMCA teams up with Sydney Kings
The YMCA of Sydney has announced a partnership with the National Basketball League's Sydney Kings, with a commitment to work together in promoting the importance of staying...
Feb 24, 2012
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Wellness
NBL launches bold community program
The National Basketball League (NBL) has launched a bold new community program that aims to have NBL players and coaches visit over 150,000 school age children over the next 12...
Feb 22, 2012
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Blacktown City advances regional tennis facility plan
Blacktown City Council is inviting expressions of interests for a contract for the planning and design of a planned regional tennis facility at its Blacktown Leisure Centre,...
Feb 21, 2012
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Aquatics
Rugby reaches historic participation high
The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has announced that participation numbers in 2011 had grown for a fourth consecutive year delivering rugby a record number of players to clubs...
Feb 21, 2012
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Billing
NSW to ban smoking at playgrounds, sports grounds and swimming pools
The NSW Government is to introduce a ban on smoking at playgrounds, public sports grounds, swimming pools, public transport stops and entrances to public buildings. The ban,...
Feb 21, 2012
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Parks
Sun and Surf attracts the crowds to Manly
Having attracted over 10,000 spectators on the famous Manly beach, and with more than 30,000 people soaking up the atmosphere up and down Manly's Corso across the opening...
Feb 18, 2012
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Environment
PCYC NSW celebrates 75 years
Police and Community Youth Clubs NSW have celebrated 75 years of providing sporting and cultural activities for the youth of NSW. The milestone was celebrated yesterday (16th...
Feb 17, 2012
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AFL records rare net loss while participation and membership rises
The AFL has posted its first net loss in a decade - declaring a deficit of $23.6 million in its 2011 Annual Report. The loss has been blamed predominantly on the AFL's expansion...
Feb 17, 2012
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Timaru goes live with Intelligenz' IntelliLeisure
Timaru District Council has chosen Intelligenz Solutions' IntelliLeisure software for the management of its five swimming pools, their first swim school programme and for their...
Feb 15, 2012
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Fitness
Revitalised Foley Park just what the Doctor ordered
New landscaping and work to improve accessibility is currently underway as part of the second stage of the revitalisation of Foley Park in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe....
Feb 14, 2012
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Parks
Community welcomes Collingwood Leisure Centre reopening
In the four weeks since it reopened, the refurbished Collingwood Leisure Centre is already proving popular with the local community After opening on 16th January, the City of...
Feb 13, 2012
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Adelaide Oval seats head to South Australian sports clubs
As part of the redevelopment of the Adelaide Oval, 8,500 seats are being offered to community sporting clubs in South Australia. Rather than dump the 20 year old plastic seats...
Feb 11, 2012
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Venues
CERM celebrates 21 years of industry partnerships
The close of 2011 marked 21 years of industry partnering between public aquatic and leisure facilities in Australia and New Zealand and the CERM Performance Indicators (CERM PI)...
Feb 10, 2012
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Australian rugby announces National Registration Day
The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has announced that it is joining forces with Australia's five Super Rugby teams to launch the code's first National Registration Day on Saturday...
Feb 8, 2012
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Victorian Government commits $3.4 million in funding for living libraries
The Victorian Government is to provide 10 Victorian libraries with more than $3.4 million to refurbish or develop new facilities from the Living Libraries Infrastructure...
Feb 7, 2012
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Sydney's Centennial Park celebrates Charles Dickens bicentenary
Sydney's Centennial Park will today mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birthday with a special event at the foot of one of the only two life-sized statues of Dickens...
Feb 7, 2012
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Australia's biggest online player registration targets one million footballers
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has announced that nation's biggest online player registration system is now fully operational and has registered 100,000 players in its...
Feb 6, 2012
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Ballarat Swimming Club backs YMCA pool management
Ballarat Gold Swimming Club President Anthony Hoffmann has come out in support of the YMCA's management of the City's Eureka Pool. Hoffmann told Ballarat newspaper The Courier...
Feb 3, 2012
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Rockhampton aquatic centre set to open but second 50 metre pool plan scuppered
As Rockhampton's redeveloped Southside Memorial Pool approaches its opening at the end of the week, local Councillors have decided against a plan to build a second 50 metre pool...
Feb 1, 2012
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Aquatics
Massive glacier calving at Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
Guests aboard Glacier Explorers boats on 31st January witnessed the result of a spectacular glacier calving at Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake that occurred at daybreak - believed...
Feb 1, 2012
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Environment