Western Australia wins rights to bid for 2007 World Netball Championship

18/8/03
Western Australia has taken one step closer to hosting the 2007 World Netball Championships.
Tourism and Sport and Recreation Minister Bob Kucera announced today that Perth had won the Australian right to stage the lucrative event.
Mr Kucera said Western Australia had beaten Queensland for the national rights to host the event and would now bid on Australia's behalf against Fiji and South Africa.
"EventsCorp, a division of the WA Tourism Commission, together with its partner, WA Netball, have worked together to get us this far and they will continue to work in partnership to make a case for staging the event in WA in 2007," he said.
The Minister said the 2007 World Netball Championships had the potential to attract 2,600 interstate and overseas visitors to WA and generate an estimated $4.8million in direct spending.
"The 2007 World Netball Championships would be contested by competitors from across the world including island nations Samoa and Barbados to larger countries such as England, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States," he said.
"With the 2007-2009 Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships already under its belt, WA is looking forward to the chance to add another stellar championship event to the 2007 line-up."
WA will present its bid to the International Netball Federation (INF) in coming months, with the winning host country expected to be announced this November.
Minister's office: 9213 7000