G'day Bruce,

I think my remark, in my first posting:
"... current Canberra team to even remember anything about the Nationals before 1993 ... if it didn't hapen in Canberra, it's not their pigeon! "
was misread as saying the NFF went back to Canberra in 1993 - what I was saying is that the current "full-time" crowd don't have any interest in anything before the fulltime staff structure came out of Dale Dengate's proposals at a Festival Forum held at the ANU in 1992.

Your remark about 1992 being "... spread out over the uni..." does bring back memories of a few long, brisk, walks between venues! Still, it was not as bad a weekend as the old days ... I think I spent almost as long in the traffic jam stretching most of the way from Canberra to Sydney, on Easter Monday, as I spent at the Festival!

Things certainly improved when they got rid of the last one-lane bridges on the Hume Highway (admittedly that was in the late 1960s) ... and then built by-passes for the older towns along the highway in the '80s. Now the main worry, driving between Sydney and Canberra. is the entire student body of Goulburn Police College getting their annual outing with every radar machine in the school!

Regards,

Bob Bolton