Be worth ticket price

dards at Parap Pool. The lack of a facility of this type was the primary and only reason swimming never reached the goals it could achieve in the games.

Attracting international and national standard swimmers to officially christen the event makes a lot of sense.

We can then build around the combat sports – boxing and Muay Thai – and the lifestyle sports of cycling, triathlon and athletics. More individual sports like table tennis and shooting and team challenges like soccer and basketball – both large in Asia.

Underpinning some of these sports can be paralympic or competition for impaired athletes.

If you want motivation, then sit and watch an impaired athlete compete and then their reaction to losing.

Paralympians in Rio have provided more emotion than some of our able-bodied athletes did during the Olympics.

Going down this path will add a new cost dimension to any games and unless there is some form of cost sharing then taxpayers can expect this to be an expensive addition.

It may be after a period the Government comes to the conclusion time has moved on and nothing can resurrect the Arafura Games. It may even come to the conclusion spending $20 million on additional tourism marketing will generate a better economic boost.