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2008
2009
Sept 20-28 Australian Championships Carnival Maryborough, QLD www.oq.asn.au/2008austchamps Sept 30 Australian MTB-O Championships -Oct 1 Maryborough, QLD www.oq.asn.au/2008austchamps Dec 27-31 Xmas 5-Days Central Victoria www.vicorienteering.asn.au
January 3-11 Oceania Championships 2009 South Island, New Zealand www.oceania2009.co.nz April 10-13 Australian 3-Days The Royal Easter O, Launceston, Tasmania www.tasorienteering.asn.au June 6-8 AUS MTBO Championships 2009 (Sprint; Middle; Long) Mt Gambier, Sth Australia June 13-14 Jukola Relays Mikkeli, Finland www.jukola2009.net June 22-28 JWOC/MTB Farum, Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-5 3 Days of Belgium Genk, Belgium www.orientatie.org July 5-12 JWOC 2009 Primiero, Italy www.jwoc2009.it July 7-12 5 Days of Dolomites Primiero, Italy www.jwoc2009.it July Fin5 Hameenlinna, Finland www.fin5.fi July 19-24 O-Ringen 2009 Smaland, Sweden www.oringen.com/smaland2009 Aug 2-8 Scottish 6-Days Tayside, Scotland www.scottish6days.com/2009/ Aug 2-8 Swiss O Week Muotatal, Switzerland www.swiss-o-week.ch Aug 9-16 WOC/MTB’09 Ben Shemen (20km from Tel Aviv), Israel Aug 14-16 3 Days of the Kempen Leopoldsburg, Belgium www.kempen-ol.be Aug 18-23 WOC 2009 Miskolc, Hungary www.woc2009.hu Aug 17-23 Hungaria Cup (6 Days) Miskolc, Hungary http://hungariacup.woc2009.hu Aug 23-30 Portugal ‘O’ Summer 2009 (6 Days) Cantanhede, Portugal www.ptosummer.com
2010
Sept 26-Oct 4 AUS Champs Carnival, Victoria www.vicorienteering.asn.au/ Oct 10-17 WMOC 2009, Lithgow NSW www.wmoc2009.orienteering.asn.au Dec 27-31 Xmas 5-Days Southern Highlands, NSW
April 2-5 Australian 3-Days, ACT www.act.orienteering.asn.au June 19-20 Jukola Relays, Kytäjä, Finland www.jukola2010.net June 27-July 4 6 Days of Tyrol, Karersee, Austria/Italy www.tyrol2010.com July 4-11 JWOC, Aalborg, Denmark www.jwoc2010.dk July 11-17 WOC/MTB & JWOC/MTB West Alentejo, Portugal July 12-17 Fin5, Imatran, Finland www.fin5.fi July 24-30 O-Ringen, Örebro, Sweden www.oringen.se/987.php July 24-31 Tour O Swiss www.tour-o-swiss.ch July 31-Aug 7 WMOC, Neuchatel, Switzerland www.wmoc2010.org August 7-15 WOC, Trondheim, Norway woc2010.com Sept 25-Oct 3 Aust Champs Carnival, Sth Aust Dec 27-31 Xmas 5-Days, NSW
XMAS 5 Days Orienteering Carnival 27th to 31st December Five days of quality orienteering in Victoria’s Golden Triangle Gold mining and granite between Maldon, Daylesford and Ballarat
Bring your bikes too. The program also includes two late afternoon MTBO events
Put this one in your diary now! www.vicorienteering.asn.au
How Your Magazine is Financed
Michael Hubbert – Editor
The operating budget for The Australian Orienteer runs at around $50,000 per annum. By far the largest single cost in producing the magazine is that of printing and packing, including inserting leaflet flyers and entry forms for major events. In 2008 a change of printing house has resulted in a reduction in basic production costs. This has enabled me to increase the number of colour pages in each edition at no extra cost to subscribers. More colour pages means more colour maps and photos from major events, and a more attractive magazine overall. It was not only more attractive costings which prompted the change of printing house. The magazine is now printed on better quality paper which gives us an improvement in print reproduction, something which is most important when reproducing complex maps with fine detail and good quality photographs. The magazine is financed mainly by subscribers – just over two-thirds of income is from members’ subscriptions. Some 17% of income is from event advertising and approx 11% from commercial advertisements with the remainder coming from non-member subscriptions and other minor sources. In recent times I have been able to obtain more event advertising, particularly overseas events for which the revenue is obtained from outside of Australian orienteering. They advertise their events in our magazine because they know that Australian orienteers are great travellers and there’s a good chance some can be persuaded to enter their events. Through their State Association fees members pay $5.45 per copy for each edition of the magazine. I think that is very good value when compared with other, similar, magazines available and I continually strive to maintain and improve the quality of The Australian Orienteer to make it even better value-for-money. Orienteers can never get enough maps and courses to study and the changes this year are all aimed at giving you, the reader, more of what I believe you like best in the magazine. I’ve included more and more stories and photos of junior orienteers because our juniors are the future of our sport and they like seeing themselves in print. But our sport is not just about juniors so I have tried to include articles which should interest people from a wide range of age groups and levels of expertise from novice orienteers to those who have been participating for many years. Of course, if you have any suggestions on how the magazine can be improved even more please let me know by email at mikehubbert@ozemail. com.au or by snail mail at The Australian Orienteer, PO Box 165, Warrandyte, VIC 3113. Lastly, without a good graphic designer the “look” of the magazine would not be nearly as good as you see today. For that I must give very deserved credit to Peter Cusworth who does a great job in taking all the articles, photos and maps I send him and moulding them into a magazine which certainly has that attractive “look” so necessary to attract readers.
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