❓ Mr Miles asks about the success of the Community Sporting and Recreation Facilities Fund. Mr Waldron responds, highlighting increased funding, flexibility in grant applications, and support for community groups, while also addressing concerns raised by Mr Murray regarding funding for Collie.
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COMMUNITY SPORTING AND RECREATION FACILITIES FUND
I would like to acknowledge year 7 students from Neerabup Primary School in my electorate. I thank the minister for attending a tour of my electorate recently. Grassroots sport and recreation is an integral part of our community. I am proud to be part of a Liberal–National government that has provided unprecedented levels of funding to local sport and recreation groups. Will the minister update the house on the success of and the support offered through the community sporting and recreation facilities fund? Mr T.K. WALDRON
I would like to acknowledge year 7 students from Neerabup Primary School in my electorate. I thank the minister for attending a tour of my electorate recently. Grassroots sport and recreation is an integral part of our community. I am proud to be part of a Liberal–National government that has provided unprecedented levels of funding to local sport and recreation groups. Will the minister update the house on the success of and the support offered through the community sporting and recreation facilities fund? Mr T.K. WALDRON
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I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I thank the minister for attending a tour of my electorate recently. Grassroots sport and recreation is an integral part of our community. I am proud to be part of a Liberal–National government that has provided unprecedented levels of funding to local sport and recreation groups. Will the minister update the house on the success of and the support offered through the community sporting and recreation facilities fund? Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I thank the minister for attending a tour of my electorate recently. Grassroots sport and recreation is an integral part of our community. I am proud to be part of a Liberal–National government that has provided unprecedented levels of funding to local sport and recreation groups. Will the minister update the house on the success of and the support offered through the community sporting and recreation facilities fund? Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON replied: I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I thank the member for Wanneroo. It was good to go out to the member’s electorate. I appreciated the tour that day. I have gone out to the electorates of members on both sides of the house to look at sporting facilities. I will do that whenever I possibly can. It is important to understand what the needs out there are. Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Following the last state election, the Liberal–National government sent a strong message of support to our sport and recreation community and local governments across the state. We recognised the need to increase the community sporting and recreation facilities fund due to increases in building costs over the years. Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about $1.6 million for Collie? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Member, they are not ready for it yet. We will talk about it later. Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : I did not see it in the budget! Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : It is not in there. We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
We increased funding from $9 million to $20 million, which has had a fantastic effect. Before I became minister I thought we needed to do a couple of things with sport and recreation. We needed, firstly, to increase funding and, secondly, we needed to provide more flexibility, particularly with a number of small grants. Quite often, people had to go through fairly onerous applications for smaller grants. We only ever assessed them once a year. We now assess project grants up to a total of $150 000 twice a year. It gives more flexibility. It makes it easier for people to apply for smaller grants. Some of the small projects include cricket nets, tennis courts, sometimes roofs—all those types of things. They are all things that are needed. It makes it easier to do that. They have been very successful. From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
From the 2010–11 CSRFF, we have allocated $1.5 million for two rounds of small grants; that is for projects up to $150 000. Members need to remember that. The fund rounds commence in February and July. In the first small grants round this year, 76 applications were assessed. Thirty-seven grants were awarded in both the metropolitan and country areas. In total I have approved $798 000 across these 37 projects. Many of these projects would not, in all likelihood, have been able to receive state government support prior to lifting the amount of the community sporting and recreation facilities fund. The increase to the fund was made by the government because, as I said, it recognised the diminished opportunity due to rising costs to support a lot of these grants and the need to further develop a lot of those supports across country WA. Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr M.P. Murray : What about the election promises? Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Does the member for Collie–Preston recall going on about this in Bunbury. At that time I had just met with the Collie Motorplex. I have now met with it twice and I have been out to its complex. It is not ready to go yet. The funding is there; it is not ready to go. The member needs to talk to the people in his electorate. It is a good project and I support it. I was trying to be easy on the member, but he kept going. Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
Some of the projects that were not funded in this round require more work, including planning. One of the things we are doing, and the previous minister emphasised this, is assisting people with their applications. I advise members that if they have groups in their electorates that are having difficulties with their applications to let me know or go to the Department of Sport and Recreation and officers there will talk them through it. The member for Cockburn did that. He has been successful, because he went about it the right way. We were able to help him. Communities across this state are benefiting from this fund. I encourage community groups to keep working. I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
I will conclude by saying that I have been in this role for just under two years. I have learnt that sport and recreation is done really well in this state. Successive governments have been able to build up a good sport and recreation department. We have been able to take it further and it is my intention to keep doing that for the benefit of our community.
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