❓ The Minister for Sport and Recreation provides an update on the government's commitments to upgrade sporting facilities in the Bunbury region, detailing specific projects and funding allocations.
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BUNBURY SPORTING FACILITIES — UPGRADE
Before I ask my question of the Minister for Sport and Recreation, I acknowledge the attendance of students from the Bunbury Primary School and recognise the current member for Nedlands as a former student of the school. Could the minister please update the house on the status of the government’s commitments to upgrade sporting facilities in the Bunbury region? Mr T.K. WALDRON
Before I ask my question of the Minister for Sport and Recreation, I acknowledge the attendance of students from the Bunbury Primary School and recognise the current member for Nedlands as a former student of the school. Could the minister please update the house on the status of the government’s commitments to upgrade sporting facilities in the Bunbury region? Mr T.K. WALDRON
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I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Could the minister please update the house on the status of the government’s commitments to upgrade sporting facilities in the Bunbury region? Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Could the minister please update the house on the status of the government’s commitments to upgrade sporting facilities in the Bunbury region? Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I thank the member for the question. As other members have said, it is great to be in Bunbury and I thank the local community for having us here. As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
As all members of Parliament would know, the community sport and recreation facilities fund has been a flagship for governments over the years. It is a scheme that partners with local government and community groups to deliver sporting facilities right across Western Australia. That fund’s budget for the past few years had been around $9 million per annum, but with the increase in costs and demands, the amount that was being delivered was falling behind the pace. The Premier committed during the election campaign to lift that funding from $9 million to $20 million per annum, and that additional funding has given the government the ability to deliver a lot more very high-quality sporting facilities throughout Western Australia. Some areas that had been neglected simply because we did not have enough funding are now being addressed. The royalties for regions campaign has given the government the ability to utilise moneys to leverage projects in country WA and the result is that bigger and better projects are up and running. Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Before I comment on Bunbury, I advise members that the government has added more flexibility to the program to assist local governments and sporting bodies. In addition it has introduced two rounds of smaller grants each year to enable organisations to have smaller programs dealt with, and that will be of great benefit to the community. I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I advise the member that the City of Bunbury has signed off on a government commitment of $1.67 million for the athletics track at Hay Park. It was great to visit Hay Park yesterday to look at that site. It will be a regional facility with a Mondo surface track, which is the same surface that was used for the Beijing Olympic track and the new Athletics Centre in Perth. It will be fantastic for the region. Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Funding has already been provided to the City for Bunbury for improvements to the Hay Park soccer facility and the construction of a grandstand. I attended a ceremony yesterday to recognise the government’s $500 000 contribution to that excellent facility. An amount of $58 000 was provided earlier this year to the Bunbury and Districts Hockey Stadium for scoreboards and associated infrastructure. A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
A commitment of $1.34 million has been made to upgrade Hands Oval, and preliminary work is currently being undertaken in that regard. I met with the city yesterday regarding its plans. We look forward to being able to deliver this commitment, but the city is yet to finalise exactly how it wants that project to proceed and is working through that. I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
I am thrilled that these commitments have been met and I announce that other commitments across the state also have been met. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about the Collie drag strip? Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : What about the Collie drag strip? The money has been allocated. I met with the gentleman involved in that project this morning, Mr Jim Wagel to discuss it. Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Several members interjected. Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : I am answering the member’s interjection. I advised that gentleman that the government is waiting for his organisation to come back to it with the information it needs. That will happen, member. Collie is a very important part of the state.
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