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WHAT COMES

AFTER COVID-19?

THE SYDNEY KOI

SHOW 2021!

Kate McGill-Andrews.

In 2019 a milestone decision was made to combine
the efforts of the Koi Society of Australia (KSA) and the
THIS YEAR IT Australian Koi Association (AKA) to stage a single
Sydney Koi Show. The result was something very
WAS GOING special and everyone was determined to continue with
TO HAPPEN, the joint Show. Preparations had only just commenced
in January/February 2020 when Covid-19 hit the world
COME HELL and everything came to a grinding halt.
OR HIGH Early this year, with infection rates way down in
Australia, borders open and people beginning to think
WATER about holidays, the Show committee again came
together – this year it was going to happen, come hell
or high water, the Sydney Koi Show was on again, even
if we ended up allowing no visitors. There have been a
few Covid scares in the intervening months and huge
worries about just how many hobbyists would decide to
show their Koi but in the end, everything has come
together and many meetings and endless telephone
calls later everything was organised to the committee’s
satisfaction. Members this year were Richard Power,
Graham Fameli, Mark Robinson, John Zammit, Joe
Borg, Paul Miglionico, Richard Davies, Heinz
Zimmermann, David Chu and Ian Andrews.
Cover photograph: A major headache has been the judges for this Show.
Grand Champion A,
73cm Sanke owned by Obviously with international travel still effectively
Graham and Lee Fameli. banned, we have no access to overseas judges – after
all, who would even want to come to Australia to spend
Grand Champion B, two weeks in a hotel room at their own expense, before
75cm Shiro Utsuri
owned by Ian Andrews being allowed to attend the Show? Our alternative has
and Kate McGill-Andrews. been to use local Australian judges, some of whom
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