Mr ADAMS (9:57 AM) —Woodsdale is the football club in Woodsdale, a small, isolated community in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania. The community has a football ground that is the home of some young, dedicated footballers who have played football together well before their teens. They love their football, their football club and the life around it.

The people who make up the Woodsdale Football Club play their football in the Oatlands District Football Association. The association is now 50 years old, an impressive age for a country association in changing times. The interesting point about this club is that Woodsdale has a great history of making grand finals. This year they played in their 13th successive grand final and won, which made it their 10th premiership out of 13. This has to be some sort of a record. They beat another good team, Kempton, with which there has been keen and lively competition over many years. The football association is an important part of this area, and one of the strengths of the association at this time is Helen Scott, who is the president of the association and deputy mayor of the Southern Midlands Council.

I congratulate Woodsdale as premiers and also the other teams—Kempton, Oatlands, Mount Pleasant, Bothwell and Triabunna—who made up the association this year. I understand that Swansea will be coming into the association next year. Unfortunately Tunnack did not quite make it through the whole season as they had difficulty getting players. Let us hope that they can put a team together for next year. All the teams that make up this association contribute magnificently to the quality of country life in their area—not just to the game of football. Long may this continue.