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In The Age newspaper yesterday there was an interesting article, 'Sports take swipe at "funding for the few"'. The basic jist of the piece was that more funding should be made available to sports in Australia with an Asian bias, such as table tennis and badminton. A few quotes from the article:

More money should go to sports with growing grassroots participation, particularly among Australia's soaring Asian population. "Sports who have an increasing share of the changing population base in this country now deserve a much better deal."

... funding should be based on future potential rather than past success. In 1986, Australia's Chinese-born population was 37,000 - but by last years census it had surged to 319,000.

At the table tennis world championships in Germany, in March, Australia's women's squad won the division two title and broke into the top 24 teams in the world. Yet the sport only receives $104,000 in high-performance federal funding.

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that sounds excellent, its about time that the government recognised this!
There seems to be a shortage of tt clubs in Perth and hopefully this can change that.

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Interesting choice of words in the title... I hope that that does not backfire

I'm sure we could do with extra funding, but we'd want to be sure it's spend the right way...

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Regarding how funding is spent, I suppose you have to trust the sporting body to follow 'proven' methods. I would imagine that sports funding is more or less a 'proven science' and that the way it has been used before for mainstream sports would work for other sports. I can accept that this 'proven science', like any science, needs careful consideration, but ...

Any help is helpful.

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From what I've heard and read, the Australian Institute of Sport is highly regarded for its "proven science". Given the significant number of our well credentialled athletes who have come through their programmes, it would be interesting to see what might happen if the AIS became seriously (and it would have to be seriously) involved with TT.

(Hopefully, they would have a talent spotting crew good enough to identify players of outstanding natural talent and ability. I probably won't be ready for Rio, but I will only be 68 in 2020! )

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Swimmers these Olympics received $39 million from the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) and table tennis received $1.3 million. Fair enough that our culture of beach-goers should be put in the spotlight, but, as the article suggests, this trend might be shifting. Although the argument makes its point by highlighting our growing Asian population's sporting needs, those of us non-Asians with 'Asian interests' can only benefit. I might see you after Rio!

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There won't be much interest in this if the IOC drops TT as an Olympic sport in 2020.

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How much budget does the Australian TT board (or what ever it is called) has per year?
Combined value, and even better if you can list the source ie
Government - X amount
LOC - X amount
additional sponsors - X amount

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