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Category 9 - Best Sports Journalism
from Rural, Regional or Suburban Media

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From The Cairns Post, Andrew Piva. Congratulations.
And from the Star News Group, Tim Doutré. Well done.

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>> TIM DOUTRÉ: I really didn’t prepare a speech, I was
just telling my table then. So I better thank

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table 7 because they asked me to say that.
And I’ll thank my boss Steve so I can tell

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him I said thanks to him when I get back to
work. And I’ll thank my beautiful girlfriend

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Cimara who is a journalist in her own right,
so I get some points there as well. And I’ll

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just quickly say as well, when I submitted
the nomination, the League was moving to three

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divisions and then all the clubs voted against
it, which was an interesting move in itself.

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That’s a subsequent article though, so maybe
next year.

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>> ANDREW PIVA: I’ll keep it very short, thanks of course
to the Australian Sports Commission and to

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Rick Hanlon who invited me up on the trip.
It was five days away and it is truly remarkable

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the work he does and you really have to see
it first hand to appreciate it. And I should

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thank my then sports editor James Silver for
giving me actually 5 days off from work to

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actually take the trip. Thank you.