<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Russell Stuart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au" target="_blank">russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 16:10 +1000, Chris Neugebauer wrote:<br>
> Hilariously, you *do* actually know what it's called. It's "AFL". In<br>
> this case, the AFL has done a fantastic job of making themselves<br>
> completely indistinguishable from the sport they represent (Australian<br>
> Rules Football) to the casual observer.<br>
<br>
</div>After I sent that I wondered if I had embarrassed myself and it was just<br>
the AFL as you say.<br>
<br>
Turns out I got lucky. According to Wikipedia the name of AFL governing<br>
body is the "AFL Commission". It changed it's name in 1993 from<br>
"Australian National Football Council". Wikipedia says the name AFL<br>
refers to the top level league, and it was the thing called the VFL<br>
prior to 1990. Maybe there are other Australian Football leagues - like<br>
under 18's.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Pointless irrelevant pedantry, but..</div><div><br></div><div>No. The "AFL Commission" is *not* "the AFL peak body", which is what you were asking about.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The peak body is, as Chris said, simply called the Australian Football League. It's a company (ACN: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left">004 155 211) registered in Victoria.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Australian Football League owns a sub-company, called the AFL Commission, whose role you have described - but it's not the "Peak Body" analogous to LA - the AFL Commission is closer to one of LA's subcommittees.</font></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-align:left"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
So today I (and apparently you) learnt something. Prior to today if<br>
someone asked my to write a cheque to the "AFL Commission" I would have<br>
asked "do they have anything to do with the game of Australian Rules<br>
Football"? I suspect we aren't a minority - most Australian's would<br>
have to make a guess at who they are. They seem to be doing just fine<br>
even so.<br>
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