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No other collection even comes close imported carpets you’ll see at these unbeatable prices in the Persian Carpet Gallery You’ll select from Australia’s largest and most respected collections gathered over years of astute selection at their source

All handcrafted and guaranteed authentic with assured trade-in value In fact many are rare masterworks of excellent provenance, heritage and heirloom quality This is an investment that will improve with age and continue to reward you every day At these prices, even your accountant may approve And you can take one home to try before you buy known as the Tagaroos, beat out New Zealand in the grand final 8 points to 2. The team included two members of the Kiama LGA - Jarvis Austin and Liam Vane-Tempest.

Kiama has a healthy OzTag scene, and is regularly played at Surf Beach and Gainsborough Oval in Kiama Downs. The next Kiama Beach Oztag Tournament will be held at Kendalls Kiama Oztag World

Beach in March 2024. The local Oztag team is known as ‘the Kiama Phantoms.’

Oztag began in 1992 with two small competitions in St George and Cronulla, and has been played in Kiama for more than 12 years. There are currently 150,000 Oztag players in Australia across 80 associations.

Beach Oztag is a non-contact version of rugby league Cham-

Champions team members Liam Vane-Tempest (centre), Jarvis Austin (right) where players must remove one or both tags from a player’s waist to stop their progress and to mark the play of the ball.

by Mark Whalan