Western Australia is an extraordinary place to visit. It has much to offer visitors- a vast and diverse environment, unique, real Australian experiences, and friendly welcoming people with a rich cultural background. Western Australia has a world renowned reputation for hosting and supporting major events and festivals. Our climate, facilities and friendly people, backed by strong Government support have ensured that some of the world's best events in recent years have been held in Perth.

The Government's investment is managed by EventsCorp, a division of Tourism Western Australia. Events Corp has developed close partnerships with private sector, sporting and cultural organisations and the community to attract and produce highly successful events.

EventsCorp has taken Western Australia to the world by securing and hosting events which have an international media following just as it has helped communities develop their potential by supporting smaller scale unique events. Where appropriate, EventsCorp fosters a 'festival' approach by clustering complementary activities around major events, ensuring that host towns, cities and regions have a festival atmosphere and visitors have more reason to stay longer in Western Australia.

In the 1950's, Jack O'Neill opened his first surf shop in a garage across the Great Highway in San Francisco, a sand dune away from his favorite bodysurfing break. There he sold his first wetsuits, a few vests he made from gluing together pieces of closed cell foam. From that very garage Jack expanded the average surfer's playground from Steamer Lane to J-Bay, and from Antarctica to those fun reef breaks off the coast of Iceland.

Thanks to Jack O'Neill, "It's always summer on the inside." Working with different types of flexible foam, his first success was with a unicellular plastic which may have been PVC. While it had good insulating properties, it did not have much tensile strength, so he put it under his bun-hugger-type bathing suit.

This was somewhat effective. Sometime later he glued a thin sheet of plastic to the plastic foam and made his first vest. Yet, while PVC served its purpose, it was hard to work with and Jack went back to the drawing board. He soon came across neoprene and found it to be a good insulator, buoyant and it had more tensile strength. With the material problem much improved Jack quickly developed designs for the short john, long john, spring suits, long-sleeved-beaver-tailed jacket and full suit wetsuits. Since then, O'Neill has made countless improvements to the design and quality of the wetsuit. From the introduction of the zigzag stitch to the names Jack originated which became generic, (i.e. spring suit, long john, short john, etc.). But accomplishments are nothing new to the O'Neill family.

Here at Nova 93.7 we have a few rules ... sound different, play s#*t hot music, have fun competitions and stuff to win, play new music first and never play more than two ads in a row. Keeping that in mind - Nathan & Nat do it from 6am to 9am each morning, Claire does from 9am to 11am, then Simon keeps it going from 11am to 3pm. Then there's Akmal & Cal with Ed Kavalee from 3pm to 6pm and Merrick & Rosso with Kate Ritchie till 7pm. Then there's even more action from 7pm to 10pm with Action Battle Team - and they obey the rules!

Who would have thought being good could be so much fun.

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Want to win the Ultimate Surf Weekend for you and three mates? Buy a 500ml SupaShake from any participating store and SMS the last 6 digits of the SupaShake barcode and your first name to 19 753 753, for your chance to win a wicked weekend for you and your mates. Promotion runs from 25th Feb to 27th March 2008. Prize includes - 4 x 2-night stay at the Margaret River Beach Resort, 4 x VIP tickets to the Drug Aware Pro Margaret River, 4 x O'Neill clothing packs, 4 x Odyssey 20/20 sunnies PLUS a Surftech surfboard signed by competition finalists.

Fonterra Brands Australia (P&B) is based in Perth, Western Australia, and manufactures and distributes delicious ice cream and dairy products under its iconic Peters, Brownes, and Connoisseur brands. The company is part of the Fonterra Co-operative Group, one of the largest Dairy Co-operatives in the world. The company's leading Brownes dairy products, Peters and Connoisseur ice creams have been firm favourites with West Australian consumers for decades, and are also distributed in national markets. Fonterra Brands Australia (P&B) supports local communities via its far-reaching Sponsorship programs. Brownes SupaShake, one of WA's most popular flavoured milks, is delighted to be sponsoring the Drug Aware Pro Margaret River and if you're seen with a Brownes SupaShake there are instant prizes you could win!