No government support for Perth Sun fair this year...?

Well it looks like SEDO/OOE will no longer help to support the Perth Sun Fair - see below - the reason?. This is a dismal state of affairs.

The Perth Sun Fair is the premiere sustainability event in WA. 15,000 people turned up at the Fair last year, there were 100 organisations with marquees and 4 seminar venues running half hour seminars all day.
These seminars alone were overflowing all day at last years Fair. The event is held on a shoe string budget and in terms of value for money must be one of the best winners that SEDO ever backed.

I convene the Fair (with no payment at all) and one project officer does and enormous amount of work (which would be worth well over $50,000 if charged at a regular rate) for something like $15,000. This is just a fraction of one salary at SEDO.

I would like you to email the Premiere and the Minister for Energy to express your dismay at this dismal performance of SEDO/OOE funding for the Fair.

I would like you to cc this to any other ministers either state or Federal as well as radio, TV and newspaper media.

Minister.Collier@dpc.wa.gov.au - cottesloe@mp.wa.gov.au

Thanks
Jonathon Thwaites
Perth Sun Fair - Convenor

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Hi Jonathon,

As you are aware, the Sustainable Energy Development Office has been integrated into the Office of Energy (OOE), and as such, no longer assumes a separate SEDO identity, logo or branding.

The Clean Energy & Community Programs Directorate within OOE has reviewed the previous SEDO commitment to Perth Sun Fair and decided that OOE sponsorship will no longer be extended.

However, OOE wishes to participate in the Sun Fair as an exhibitor and a registration proposal has been submitted for an OOE display on Sunday 28th March with our staff and resources fully committed to the project.

We look forward to OOE's going involvement in another worthwhile and rewarding Perth Sun Fair in 2010.

Kind regards

Ian