Tony Burns Commonwealth Games Baton Relay Darwin 2018

So excited & honoured to be a Baton bearer today and what an amazing experience with sharing this with my amazing wife and our little Angel 👼🏻 Layla and Laddie with being part of the Queen’s Baton Relay as it travels through #DarwinNT on the way to the Gold Coast. #DreamBelieveAchieve

After travelling an astonishing 288 days throughout the Commonwealth, the Queen’s Baton will soon arrive onto Australian soil and will embark on an epic 100-day journey, travelling the length and breath of Australia.

 

See where the Baton will travel, which streets will be lined with crowds, and the celebration dates to mark in your calendar leading up to GC2018.

Each host nation of the Commonwealth Games has the responsibility to create a Queen’s Baton. It needs to not only reflect design, cultural and human values it must also genuinely engage and inspire the Commonwealth to come together to celebrate GC2018.

 

The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation appointed Designworks, a small Brisbane company based in West End, to design, engineer and manufacture the GC2018 Queen’s Baton.

 

Spinifex is a grass-like plant with extensive traditional indigenous uses. Created in Queensland using Spinifex nano materials and resin sourced from North West Queensland alongside other Aboriginal initiatives, the custom-made paper is an example of what can be achieved by combining traditional techniques and modern material technology. The University of Queensland re-interpreted the Spinifex into cutting edge sustainable material technologies, producing a thin, tough and very special bespoke paper