Sports And Recreation In An Australian Town

Written By Parvez Mahmood

My first visit to Griffith in the Australian state of NSW was in 2007. Since then, I have lived here for a cumulative five years over seven visits, and have come to regard it as my second home. Griffith is a friendly town where the main economic activity is farming, and farm related industries and businesses. The area is called Wiradjuri country after the name of the main Aboriginal tribes, or, in the current politically correct term, the ‘first-nation’ tribes, who inhabited this land before the arrival of the British colonisers. The town was established in 1916 when the construction of a canal facilitated irrigation of this arid land.

The town has only one shopping street, a two-kilometre-long stretch of a wide road with restaurants, pharmacies, cafes, footwear outlets, clothes sellers, grocers, electronics stores, Indian groceries, banks, and everything else that ordinary households need. There is a side parallel street containing two shopping malls and some service-oriented workplaces. As in all other cities and towns of Australia, it has clubs, three of them here: to provide bar, accommodation, restaurant and gaming facilities. The Exies Club, basically for Ex-Servicemen of? the Australian Defence Forces, but open to all for a very small membership fee, runs a full-spectrum club, a sports centre on a large playground, a motel, and dining and recreational facilities in its main club building. Another club, with similar facilities, is called Leagues Club. The third club is the Coro Club, that has a motel, a playground and the main club building with dining and gaming facilities. Even though the town is small, the clubs are crowded on weekends. Unlike Pakistan, where social gatherings are mostly men-only affair, the number of male and female patrons here is roughly the same.

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