Kathryn

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Peter,
It’s chicken and egg though. If investments are not made in women’s sport, including allowing women to be semi or full professional, then the quality of their game won’t improve.

You reference the women’s 7s team as a benchmark for Wallaroos to aspire to, and this is true. But that’s the Pearls have been a professional squad for the last 4-5 years (even though the revenue they brought in at the start of that period would have been negligble), and the absolute step-change in the quality of their performances shows that investment in professionalism pays off.

You are putting women’s sport in a no-win position. No money for them until they improve quality commensurate with professional teams, but without that money they will never get to that level.

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