Page 955 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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Football has taken me all over the world. I have the great honour of playing for Australia and have also played for various teams in Europe after originally being signed by the famous Italian club Inter Milan.
In 2007 I was picked for the first time to play for the Socceroos. Since then I have gone to the World Cup in Germany in 2010 and last year had the privilege of coming back home to Canberra to play for Australia against Malaysia at Canberra Stadium.
Carl Valeri is a wonderful ambassador and was a great choice to be the ambassador for the Catholic schools carnival.
Mr Seselja: A MacKillop boy, I think. Is he a MacKillop boy?
MR DOSZPOT: St Francis of Assisi, I believe, and St Clare of Assisi at Conder.
Carl has played at those levels, and in one of the last paragraphs he says:
What hasn’t changed is that I still love playing the game. At the end of the day, no matter what level you play, having fun is really all that matters.
And the schools did have fun. The winning teams, just for the record, were Nicholls United from Holy Spirit Nicholls; Good Shepherd Lincolns from Good Shepherd, Amaroo; Holy Family Beckenbauer from Holy Family, Gowrie; Good Shepherd Dorsets from Good Shepherd, Amaroo; O’Connor Victory from St Joseph’s, O’Connor; SCA Bullets from St Clare of Assisi, Conder; Good Shepherd Cotswolds from Good Shepherd, Amaroo; Nicholls Brumbies from Holy Spirit, Nicholls; St Monica’s Victory from St Monica’s, Evatt; O’Connor Jets from St Joseph’s, O’Connor; St Vincent’s Cougars from St Vincent’s, Aranda; O’Connor Heat from St Joseph’s, O’Connor; Thomas More’s Titans from St Thomas More’s, Campbell; MT Blue from Mother Teresa, Harrison; St Michael’s Kewell from St Michael’s, Kaleen; SJA Sharp Shooters from St John the Apostle, Florey; Noodle Snaks from St Bede’s, Red Hill; and MT White from Mother Teresa, Harrison. Congratulations to all involved with the Catholic schools soccer carnival.
As shadow minister for education, last night I was pleased to be one of the many attendees at the awards ceremony for the Litlinks writing competition at the National Library. This event is the culmination of a year of hard work from year 9 to year 12 students and their teachers from many schools participating in this competition.
There were preliminary performances at this gala event that included local beat boxer Keegan Brady, Shakespearean performer Cameron Thomas, and the somewhat controversial but immensely talented international rapper Omar Musa.
Previous Litlinks winners Ashley Orr and Yvonne Wood spoke, as did Litlinks coordinator Susanne Kiraly and the minister for education. Dr Anthony Eaton, a contributor for the past four years, as the judge of the finalists’ stories spoke about his dilemma as a judge and reflected that judging creative writing competitions is completely unfair because another judge would pick something different for a completely different reason.
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