It’s good to see that Swan Districts has the courage to stand up against the VFL demigods and their WA sycophants at the WAFC. Swans want grassroots people to have a say.
Not Black And White
JOHN TOWNSEND
ARTICLE: Swan
Districts oppose WA Football Commission electoral changes. Swan Districts
are the only WA football stakeholders to oppose constitutional changes to the
WA Football Commission that would formalise the complex election system in
place for most of this century.
The two AFL clubs and eight other WAFL clubs agreed to the
constitutional changes required by all WA organisations before June 30 under
the new Associations Incorporation Act.
A WAFC special general meeting was held at Subiaco Oval last
night to formally ratify the changes that were endorsed by the clubs this month.
But Swans opposed the changes and want the WAFC to apply the
recommendations of the 2017 structural review of football to overhaul the
current governance structure.
Swans' chief executive Jeff Dennis declined to comment yesterday and president Peter Hodyl
could not be contacted.
Under the
WAFC constitution, the nine WAFL clubs have half the votes at commission
elections while the two AFL clubs have the other half.
But that
is not applied in practice with the WAFC using the model designed in the 2001
Crawford report that gives 20 per cent of the votes to each of West Coast and
Fremantle, 30 per cent to the combined WAFL clubs, 20 per cent to the
commission itself and the final 10 per cent to community football, such as
amateur and country associations.
Swans
argue that the current breakdown, with the AFL clubs and commission holding a
majority of votes, ensures the WAFL clubs will be invariably outvoted in any
matter that conflicts between the two levels of the game.
A WAFC
spokesman said a full governance review would be undertaken and was expected to
be finished next year.
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