This article appeared in a local Brisbane paper highlighting the issues that will continue to play out in Queensland as the typical model of coaches leasing aquatic council facilities is overhauled.  Local Governments are looking to bring the facilities back 'in-house" or at least out source them to organisations that will operate the facilities on a more commercial and service orientated manner.  It may well be that competitive swimming suffers in the short term but the long term winner may be the wider community you reassess their use of their local aquatic recreation facility

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/swimming/where-have-the-coaches-gone-dire-straits-for-elite-sport-20090903-f9xp.html.

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