Queensland’s State Director of Gateball Refereeing, Margaret Barnard presents Level 1 refereeing badges to Southport’s Barbara and Jim Northcott. Julia Tai received her Level 2 badge.

Lists of qualified referees in each state are to be found on this website under About Gateball, Officiating Rules and Refereeing. If there are any corrections to be made to these lists please contact your State Coordinators of refereeing in the first instance.

A new category, Inactive, has been added at the end of each State’s listing . Referees who have not completed the ASC online course or reaccreditation cards will be deemed inactive at the end of next year. Any current referee who has not completed these requirements is invited to contact their State Coordinator of Refereeing to clarify their intention. Referees are reminded that these requirements bring gateball into line with other codes of mallet sports and AusSport/Australian Sports Commission.

Every team entering a club, state or national competition should have at least one qualified referee or, at the very least, a referee in training.

Anyone wishing to become a referee should contact their State Coordinator of Refereeing (Qld and NSW,) State Coordinator (Vic,) or the National Coordinator (WA and SA.)

Players are reminded that a new version of the rules will be published in 2019 and, it is believed, will come into effect in April. It appears that these changes will be fairly minimal. Details will be forwarded as soon as we are notified by the WGU. If previous practice is to be followed we will receive a summary which players will be expected to use in conjunction with their existing 2015 rule book. Copies of the new rule book will probably be delivered to the National Coordinator in mid to late 2019 and will be distributed to states as soon as possible. Anyone who requires a copy of the rules between now and the 2019 version being delivered is advised to use the online version. Hard copies may also be held at clubs and some may still be held by State Coordinators.