Hopefully by next week or so we'll have a hearing date.

The audience loved it, they responded to it very strongly in a lot of different ways. A lot of different topics that came out of the play reading struck such a chord in people, and it wasn't always the same chord. People latched onto different aspects of the play and that made us think this is worthy of a full production.

It was our ritual, every Friday night for years.

The schools would argue that, 'Oh, we are providing an education' -- which they are really not, because they?re only giving you one year on a see-what-happens basis, ... And they also say, 'If you don?t want to live like this, then go pro.' Well, you don?t say that to the coach. It?s OK for the coach to have a TV deal or endorsement deal. I don?t begrudge the coach, but the player should have some opportunities.

Either the NCAA changes its rules or our schools would not be allowed to be part of the NCAA,

We'd have tea on a Friday night at home and Dad (Dan, a former Fitzroy premiership player) would clear the plates off the table, put on the kettle and treat my back with hot water and olive oil,

We had the perfect storm for getting this passed. Now, at the end of the session, we seem to be moving toward the perfect storm to kill it.

There are all kinds of events out there - and we just don't have enough places to put them in California, a state with 35 million people,

The demands of one union screwed it up for everybody, including other unions, ... I think their representative overplayed their hand and thereby cost his and other unions a significant amount of work.

That was a pretty easy decision to make. The campaign hat and the new badge would create a distinctive uniform and save money.