Show me where the rugby league competitions are in Kalgoorlie (lots of mines around there) and in the Hamersley Ranges (plenty there as well). One big fat ZERO in spite of these numbers! And yet there are two AFL competitions in the Hamersley Ranges - Fortescue and Newman!! There's only the Pilbara and AFL play in that region as well!214Four wrote:Thanks to the mining boom WA has been invaded with thousands of RL fans who will help grow the game over there, once this happens and depending how major it is too, the AFL will be in all sorts of trouble as WA is that codes second fort, if that falls then the war will no longer be winable for them..![]()
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Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that, for the first time, WA has recorded the highest number of interstate migrants of all the States. In the first three months of the year, more than 2400 people from NSW, 2194 Victorians, 2472 Queenslanders and 641 Northern Territorians made the move to WA. And in the year to March, a net number of 5000 people moved to WA from other parts of the country - the State's best result since the mid-1980s. In the March quarter, WA's population was also swelled by 10,340 new residents from overseas. There were a record 8233 babies born in the State during the quarter, making up for a sharp fall in the December quarter. WA's population grew by 2.2 percent (up 51,000 people) in the year to March.
Looks to me like your precious NSW/QLD ex-pats are having NO FRICKING EFFECT!