Nick continues to be involved in Hawthorn as committee member. Together they have raised their two daughters here in Shepparton.
Kim has run her own business in the service and training industry for the past 28 years, expanding her business nationally, taking on the role as National Education and Marketing Manager for the Salons Group. Her own makeup brand is sold across Australia. She has also been a volunteer for the Shine program and the Make A Wish foundation.
Kim and her family have invested their lives in a region they believe in and love. She is passionate about Greater Shepparton; her aspiration is to make the region a wonderful place for it's residents, to see our region thrive and prosper.
John specialised in and metres with his personal bests being John is a member of the Athletics Australia Board and more recently was responsible for the highly successful Nitro Athletics Melbourne event which is set to revolutionize the sport of athletics. Margaret Zita has been in the aviation industry for over 27 years and in that time she has seen the growth and mergers between Australian Airlines and Qantas. Swisse was also recognised as a great place to work in the top 25 BRW list two years running and Light Warrior is a positive, principle-driven investment group, focused on investments in a range of industries.
Light Folk is his family foundation that supports the advancement of human kind. His father grew up in Shepparton, and three of his brothers have large families who live in Shepparton. Radek spent a huge amount of his youth in Shepparton and the place is very dear to him. Leon Spellson has worked in the sport and entertainment marketing space for 20 years specialling in sponsorship, events, brand integration and hospitality.
Leon has been fortunate across his journey to work on some of the largest global events Olympics, World Cups, Commonwealth Games and biggest tours One Direction in Australia and overseas.
Nine Live is a speciality touring, events and hospitality business created to complement the already successful events division at NEC. Mitch Catlin has worked in senior marketing, brand and media roles for 15 years across both Australia and overseas. Mitch has been integral to two of the biggest brands in Australia over the past decade - Swisse and Myer.
His roles have covered everything from global marketing strategy, creative campaigns ambassador and celebrity deals, national and international event management, Media Relations and PR Strategy, Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations, sponsorships and Partnerships and more. Prior to his in-house roles, Mitch was the Media Director for Haystac Public Affairs working across media and brand strategy for some of the most well-known household names in Australia. He was seconded to both the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and World Swimming Championships in a strategic media and event role.
He oversees a team of approximately three thousand employees in Melbourne and Perth supporting the seamless management of over luxury accommodation rooms across five hotels and twenty-four restaurants and thirteen bars owned and operated by Crown.
Lauren Jackson is an Australian former professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Lauren was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport AIS in , when she was Jackson joined the Canberra Capitals for the season when she turned 18, and played with the team off and on until , winning four more WNBL championships.
She was a member the Summer Olympics, and Summer Olympics teams, captain of the Summer Olympics team, winning three silver medals. She was also part of the Australian team that won the bronze at the Summer Olympics.
Lauren ranks among the top WNBA players in played games and minutes, field goals and three point shoots, and turnover percentage. Jackson announced her retirement from basketball on 31 March , citing a persistent knee injury as the reason for her decision. Besides her basketball career Lauren is in the process of attaining her university degree at the Macquarie University, majoring in gender studies. Jeanette Powell was born in Prescot, England and emigrated to Australia as a child.
After a short time in the Preston migrant camp, the family moved to Shepparton in regional Victoria. Prior to entering parliament, Jeanette held a variety of occupations including film processor, television presenter, singer, marketing and sales, office manager and director of the family auto-electrics business. From to Jeanette was a Shire of Shepparton councillor, and President of the Shire from to After the council amalgamations, Jeanette was appointed as a Commissioner with the Shire of Campaspe from to Jeanette was elected to the Legislative Council seat of North-Eastern Province at the state election, becoming the first woman to represent the National Party of Australia in the Victoria Parliament.
In , she was elected to the Legislative Assembly, successfully retaining the seat of Shepparton for the National Party upon the retirement of long-serving MP Don Kilgour. Jeanette was the first woman to represent the National Party in both Houses of the Victorian Parliament. In February Jeanette announced that she would not be a candidate at the Victorian State Election. Since assuming the role of Pratt Foundation Chair in , Heloise Pratt has led Pratt Philanthropies to a new generation of philanthropy and social investment.
In June Heloise was made a Member of the Order of Australian in recognition of her charitable work and commitment. Heloise continues to play an important role in Visy Industries, the company founded by her later father Richard Pratt. This role includes overseeing VisyCare which promotes corporate social responsibility by establishing many community-based projects around Australia, including learning, youth and immigrant centres. The Pratt family share a long and fond association with Shepparton with Richard Pratt and his family settling in Shepparton in after seeking refuge from the Nazis.
Visy continue to operate a site at Shepparton. Prior to his current role Andrew was previously the Marketing Director of the Jayco Corporation and continues to be a Board Member of the company. Terms of reference have been drawn up by the Greater Shepparton City Council which will form the centrepiece for the work that the bid committee must undertake. Further information regarding the study will be made available in the future. Each candidate city looking to host a Commonwealth Games must include a minimal of 10 core sports on their program:.
The Australian Commonwealth Games Federation has been contacted and the Taskforce will be meeting with them shortly to discuss the proposal.
We need to look at things differently in this day and age to ensure costs and benefits work in sporting bids. It really is a game changer for regional cities. For cities like Melbourne, they continue to grow and operate all the time.
But something like this really will change the face of towns like Shepparton, Ballarat and Bendigo. We sit in the Oceania category so could face bids from other Australian cities or likely from New Zealand as well. We think all of Australia will really embrace a concept that helps the engine room of this country in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture and dairy. We know how regional Australia has done it tough in recent years and this is a pat on the back for them.
Due to the size of Victoria, this first of its kind approach would only work in this state as other states such as New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia are too dispersed.
Greater Shepparton is the lead city in this bid and the phase one working group is being led by Greater Shepparton City Council. But this is not about Greater Shepparton — this is about the whole of Victoria coming together to create something very special — a legacy for regional areas.
Greater Shepparton had the vision to create this landmark event but we will all be working together to try to get this off the ground for the millions of Victorians living outside of Melbourne. We are looking at existing infrastructure, where possible, to upgrade to Commonwealth Games standards rather than all new infrastructure being built.
Most of the nominated regional cities have venues and facilities that have already hosted significant international and national sporting events for many years with these now planning major facility upgrades for the next decade.
While these venues may need upgrading to Commonwealth Games standard it will be at less cost than creating new facilities. That is, we envisage rather than one giant village, we would create temporary satellite villages in the regional cities hosting the various sports. This is part of sharing the economic, social and cultural benefits across the state and engaging communities right across Victoria.
Accommodation will be one of the central investigative roles of the Greater Victoria Commonwealth Games Taskforce and ultimately the feasibility study of hosting the Games in Greater Victoria.
In terms of accommodation for potential spectators, that is one area of the challenge that needs to be explored across some regional areas. We need to talk to accommodation providers about opportunities that hosting the games may provide for them. Hosting Commonwealth Games events will provide immediate and on-going tourism opportunities for the regional cities involved, therefore further private investment in accommodation would be encouraged.
Undoubtedly Melbourne will play a massively significant role in spectators for basing themselves particularly for regional cities like Ballarat and Geelong only one hour away.
In the Olympic Games in Rio, athletes and spectators were spending more than two hours one way travelling to stadiums and events. Who is going to want to travel all around Victoria to watch different sports?
The state-wide approach to this concept is part of the attraction — multiple regional cities are being used and showcased to the world in a way that has never happened before. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle was among other leaders to back the city, saying it was one of few in the world with the capacity to stage a global event.
No city jumps behind events like Melbourne; no other city has such keen sporting spectators. It has the facilities.
Former Australian Grand Prix chairman Ron Walker said Melbourne had a proven legacy, noting the event had not burdened taxpayers. It would take some planning but it would certainly fill a gap all those years ahead. If we have the will, we can do it. Join to receive our 'Greater Together' e-Newsletter filled with all the latest news on our journey to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
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