State of Origin Australian Rogby League - Should it be called that?

With the second game coming up this year, players qualify and are selected as true representatives of each state or even for their our country.

Here are the eligibility Rules for which State you are entitled to play in NSW Rugby League State of Origin. It leaves it open for you not to play for the State, you were born in. It also doesn't mention being born overseas but if you weren't born within Queensland or New South Wales, you may qualify to play for either State. That is the part that get's me!. Many players we thought should be playing in one team,  either would be eligible to play should have represented the other state based on Stare of Origin born only!

Does that make the team stronger than the other team when it happens?

Here is a list of players that qualified to play for a State. Based on State of Origin born only, would they qualify                                                             

• Greg Inglis, Kempsey NSW - Played for Queensland
• Steve Rogers
• James Tamou - Palmerston North, New Zealand - played for  Queensland
• Sam Thaiday - Sydney - NSW - played for Queensland
• James McManus  - Banff, Scotland - played for NSW
• Ben Elias - Tripoli - Lebanon - played for NSW
• Josh Papalii - Auckland, New Zealand - played for Queensland
• Josh Dugan- Tuggeranong ACT - plays for NSW
• Michael Crcoker - Sydney NSW - played for Queensland
• Timana Tahu - Melbourne Victoria - played for NSW
• Adrian Lamb - Raboal, PNG - played for Queensland
• Peter Stirling - Toowoomba Queensland - played for NSW
• Israel Folau - Minto, NSW - played for Queensland
• Wullie Mason - Auckland New Zealand - played for NSW
• Petero Civonieva - Suva Fiji - played for  Queensland
• Matt Gillett - Macksville NSW - played for Queensland
• Toni Carroll - Christchurch, New Zealand - played for Queensland
• Ian Roberts - London, UK - played for NSW
• Brad Thorn - Mosgiel, New Zealand - played for Queensland
• Robbie O'Davis - Kurrajong NSW - played for Queensland
• John Hopoate - Nuku'alofa, Tonga - played for NSW
• Paul Bowman - Newcastle, NSW - played for Queensland
• Julien ONeil - Hornsby NSW - played for Queensland
• Chris Johns - Brisbane, Queensland - played for NSW
• Steve Rogers - Goldcoast, Queensland - played for NSW

IPART has released its Issues Paper for the review of Fire and Rescue NSW’s fees and charges - NSW IPART

 

IPART is reviewing Fire and Rescue NSW’s user charges for services such as false alarm call-outs to automatic fire alarm systems, hazmat incidents and statutory fire safety inspections.

We are seeking feedback on our proposed approach to this review, including which services should be subject to user charges and a pricing methodology to recover the costs of those services.

Click here for the Review for Fire & Rescue Fees & Charges

Click here for the Information Paper

Click here for the previous post

NSW COVID-19 Cases by Location Analysis as of 29th July 2021 - Raul Arregui

 Here is the link to today's report (PDF attached too):

https://arregui.net/covid-19/nsw-covid-19-cases-by-location%202021-07-29.htm

Summary:

- data up of 29th July but incomplete (only 218 of the 240 cases reported)

- we have passed the highest number of daily new cases in NSW ever (since the start of the pandemic)

- the number of cases under investigation is now extremely high (327 total from last 4 days, 88 more than yesterday) -- contact tracing is in trouble with numbers like this ...

- virus has spread into a new LGA during the last 3 days: Goulburn-Mulwaree

- if cases start reducing daily from tomorrow, it would take until 11h Aug to progressively reduce new cases to 0

See the chart of new cases per population by LGA for the last 4 days below. The Strathfield LGA is 6th on the top-10; and it has higher cases per population than the Blacktown, Parramatta or Georges River LGAs. However, Strathfield is not one of the 8 LGAs that are currently in "tight" lockdown, while Blacktown, Parramatta and Georges River are. Why not?