The ACT Government has expressed serious interest in supporting a planned Western Sydney team in the Australian Football League in a deal that could be similar to Tasmania's sponsorship of the Hawthorn AFL club. Read more
Repco Rally Australia has announced a new carbon offset plan for the event, which the organisers hope will also make it a more attractive sponsorship proposition.Read more
Moral hazard clauses that allow sponsors to tear up contracts because of a player's off-field behaviour are set to become the norm, according to a leading sports lawyer.Read more
Basketball Australia (BA) has announced that eight teams will participate in its upcoming season of elite men's basketball, and says it has a number of interested parties for sponsorship.Read more
Cricketers have again dominated the Sweeney Sports list of "marketable" sports stars, which the company attributes to the year-round coverage of the sport in the media and the dominance of the Australian team over a long period.Read more
Sydney Theatre Company (STC) attributed its first decline in sponsorship income in seven years to "the severe tightening of the sponsorship market over 2008".Read more
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has decided not to renew its contract as the title sponsor for the New Zealand PGA Championship.Read more
News Limited newspapers the Herald Sun and the Geelong Advertiser have combined to secure the sponsorship of next year's UCI World Road Cycling Championships.Read more
The sponsorship industry is proving its resilience under the current difficult economic conditions, according to Sponsorship Australasia president Philip Whittaker.Read more