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Premium Content Subscriber only More than 600 of the nation’s elite polocrosse athletes and hundreds more spectators will descend on Warwick this weekend for the Barastoc Interstate Polocrosse Series. The three-day carnival will be held with the Shell Cup Carnival from Friday to Sunday at the Warwick Polocrosse Club grounds at Morgan Park. Twenty state-level teams from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will compete across seven divisions in the Barastoc Series, and another seven club-level teams will take part in the Shell Cup. After nearly two years without compe...
Councillor Cameron Gow was one of the most vocal in favour of the request, contending the tourism benefits would outweigh any costs of the water. “If Warwick Polocrosse can’t access this water, it’s potentially another event cancelled so people won’t visit our region, which flows onto our tourism operators,” Cr Gow said. He was met with fierce opposition by councillors Andrew Gale, Ross Bartley, and Stephen Tancred, who all agreed the region’s drought status was too “desperate” to offer extra water to a sporting organisation. “I cannot, in the current dire circumstances w...