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Rugby Australia has announced a $27.1 million loss for 2020, with chairman Hamish McLennan saying a period that was significantly affected by COVID-19 could have resulted in the code in Australia going amateur.
Speaking at RA’s annual general meeting on Thursday, McLennan also criticised unnecessary spending by previous administrations and said they had not invested enough in grassroots rugby.
‘We openly talked about the game becoming amateur’: Hamish McLennan says the governing body’s balance sheet was ‘horrible’.
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McLennan, who was formally elected chairman at the meeting after he was appointed by the board as a casual vacancy in June last year, said the game had been in dire trouble.
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2020 tests limits of Arctic adaptation December 31st, 2020 |
1. Arctic struggles with pandemic and its impacts to education, health
Across the Arctic, as well as the state, nation and globe, the dominant story of 2020 was the COVID-19 pandemic. For rural Alaska, however, the pandemic brought back memories of the Spanish flu, which decimated many in Alaska s Native villages, in some cases leaving only a handful of survivors.
While the state braced for impact shortly after spring break, closing schools, restaurants and many service industries and limiting travel between communities, rural Alaska did not see immediate outbreaks, despite fears that prompted many communities to restrict travel and require testing and quarantines for all people arriving via air.
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One of the unexpected success stories of the Australian season has been Melbourne second-rower Matt Philip.
At the beginning of the year, he may have been forgiven for suspecting that international rugby was about to pass him by in 2020. The World Cup starting pair of Rory Arnold and Izack Rodda were rightly established as first choices, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto was firmly in the mix, and a promising crop of recent Wallaby under 20s – Harry Hockings at the Reds, Nick Frost at the Brumbies, and Trevor Hosea in Melbourne – was pushing up from the fertile ground underneath them. It looked like Philip could be squeezed out.
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