❓ The Minister for Sport and Recreation outlines investments in sporting infrastructure, highlighting a new planning exercise for an indoor sporting facility in Perth's inner southern suburbs and the retention of the Australian hockey centre in WA.
AnsweredQoN 853Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
SPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE
853. Mr G. BAKER to the Minister for Sport and Recreation:
I refer to the Cook Labor
government's investment in high-quality sporting infrastructure
throughout Western Australia.
(1) Can the
minister outline to the house how this investment is delivering improvements in
both community and professional sporting facilities?
(2) Can the minister advise the house how this
government is planning to meet future demand at our community sporting
facilities?
INFRASTRUCTURE
853. Mr G. BAKER to the Minister for Sport and Recreation:
I refer to the Cook Labor
government's investment in high-quality sporting infrastructure
throughout Western Australia.
(1) Can the
minister outline to the house how this investment is delivering improvements in
both community and professional sporting facilities?
(2) Can the minister advise the house how this
government is planning to meet future demand at our community sporting
facilities?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2)
I thank the member for South Perth for the question and congratulate him for
his ongoing advocacy, particularly for
sporting infrastructure in his area and within that rapidly growing corridor,
which is a very important part of the metropolitan area. I was really
pleased to join the member for South Perth, the
Minister for Local Government and member for Victoria Park, and the member for
Belmont last week at Como Secondary College—another place for
which the member has been fighting hard—for an announcement about our government's commitment to a major
planning exercise for a new sporting facility in that corridor.
The announcement of $2 million
will ensure that planning commences for an important facility for which people
have argued and, indeed, advocated for a long, long time. I think the member
highlighted to me that some of the basketball, volleyball and netball
stakeholders who were there had said that this was the first time a government
had been serious about catering for the expanding needs of those codes in that
area. I was appreciative of the stakeholders being present as well. That money
will be used to commence the planning for an indoor sporting facility in Perth's
inner southern suburbs.
We know that there has been an
increase in population in Perth's inner southern suburbs, with lots
more young families with kids there. In terms of the codes of basketball,
netball and volleyball, the demand for covered
courts continues to grow. This announcement will ensure that planning for that
can now commence . We will of course utilise a lot of the work already
done by those stakeholders. I congratulate those stakeholders; they have worked
very hard to articulate their needs so that they can be accommodated in this
process. I am very confident that through the member for South Perth's
advocacy, and the advocacy of the members for Belmont and Victoria Park, we
will be able to ensure that a facility is delivered under a Cook Labor government.
As we know, the member's seat was previously held by the other side. It
took the first Labor member for South Perth in history to advocate and get
results. He already has a track record, and he has been here for only nearly
four years. I congratulate him for his advocacy.
The other thing that is occurring
nearby is the Australian hockey centre. As members know, in 2022, after some very fierce fighting by this government, we
secured the continuation of national hockey being centred here in Western
Australia. This was a very important campaign. I have to tell you that the
Queenslanders are still ropeable about the fact that Western Australia got it.
They are steaming over there. Some people in the eastern states thought they
should have everything.
Ms R. Saffioti : They always do.
Mr D.A. TEMPLEMAN : They do. Well, they are not having
everything. We have the Australian hockey centre. We have a history of delivering with regard to hockey facilities in Western
Australia. We will deliver an outstanding expanded facility that will
include new fields, an indoor hockey space and a goalie practice area. All the
facilities will be focused on athletes so that our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos
will have state-of-the-art, world-class hockey facilities over the next couple
of decades in which to build their campaigns for the Commonwealth Games,
Olympic Games, world cups and other events going forward. It will also mean
that this facility will be the best in the Southern Hemisphere, and possibly
the world. Therefore, the opportunity to attract the Asian Cup and other games
from our near neighbours also will be enhanced.
I thank those members who
advocated very strongly for us to secure the Australian hockey centre at Curtin
University . Can I thank Curtin University. We signed the final lease
arrangements and documentation last week. We will now commence construction of
the Australian hockey centre, the home of hockey in Australia and the home of
our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos. I assure all those who play the code in Western
Australia and Australia that it is going to be delivered by the Cook Labor
government. It will be a world-best practice facility that will enhance our
chances and opportunities in future Commonwealth and Olympic Games and world
cups. It is very exciting, and I thank the
member again for his tremendous advocacy for sport, more broadly, in his
electorate. It is another reason why on 8 March, when those good people
from South Perth —
Several members interjected.
Mr R.S. Love : Is that the election?
Mr D.A. TEMPLEMAN : What is wrong? What is he barking
at now? What is he doing? He is barking. He is like a little terrier. He is
like a little Shih tzu over there!
When the good people of South Perth vote, I am sure that they
will be looking very favourably upon the member, because the member, after a long
period of conservative government, has delivered so much. He will deliver more
after 8 March.
I thank the member for South Perth for the question and congratulate him for
his ongoing advocacy, particularly for
sporting infrastructure in his area and within that rapidly growing corridor,
which is a very important part of the metropolitan area. I was really
pleased to join the member for South Perth, the
Minister for Local Government and member for Victoria Park, and the member for
Belmont last week at Como Secondary College—another place for
which the member has been fighting hard—for an announcement about our government's commitment to a major
planning exercise for a new sporting facility in that corridor.
The announcement of $2 million
will ensure that planning commences for an important facility for which people
have argued and, indeed, advocated for a long, long time. I think the member
highlighted to me that some of the basketball, volleyball and netball
stakeholders who were there had said that this was the first time a government
had been serious about catering for the expanding needs of those codes in that
area. I was appreciative of the stakeholders being present as well. That money
will be used to commence the planning for an indoor sporting facility in Perth's
inner southern suburbs.
We know that there has been an
increase in population in Perth's inner southern suburbs, with lots
more young families with kids there. In terms of the codes of basketball,
netball and volleyball, the demand for covered
courts continues to grow. This announcement will ensure that planning for that
can now commence . We will of course utilise a lot of the work already
done by those stakeholders. I congratulate those stakeholders; they have worked
very hard to articulate their needs so that they can be accommodated in this
process. I am very confident that through the member for South Perth's
advocacy, and the advocacy of the members for Belmont and Victoria Park, we
will be able to ensure that a facility is delivered under a Cook Labor government.
As we know, the member's seat was previously held by the other side. It
took the first Labor member for South Perth in history to advocate and get
results. He already has a track record, and he has been here for only nearly
four years. I congratulate him for his advocacy.
The other thing that is occurring
nearby is the Australian hockey centre. As members know, in 2022, after some very fierce fighting by this government, we
secured the continuation of national hockey being centred here in Western
Australia. This was a very important campaign. I have to tell you that the
Queenslanders are still ropeable about the fact that Western Australia got it.
They are steaming over there. Some people in the eastern states thought they
should have everything.
Ms R. Saffioti : They always do.
Mr D.A. TEMPLEMAN : They do. Well, they are not having
everything. We have the Australian hockey centre. We have a history of delivering with regard to hockey facilities in Western
Australia. We will deliver an outstanding expanded facility that will
include new fields, an indoor hockey space and a goalie practice area. All the
facilities will be focused on athletes so that our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos
will have state-of-the-art, world-class hockey facilities over the next couple
of decades in which to build their campaigns for the Commonwealth Games,
Olympic Games, world cups and other events going forward. It will also mean
that this facility will be the best in the Southern Hemisphere, and possibly
the world. Therefore, the opportunity to attract the Asian Cup and other games
from our near neighbours also will be enhanced.
I thank those members who
advocated very strongly for us to secure the Australian hockey centre at Curtin
University . Can I thank Curtin University. We signed the final lease
arrangements and documentation last week. We will now commence construction of
the Australian hockey centre, the home of hockey in Australia and the home of
our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos. I assure all those who play the code in Western
Australia and Australia that it is going to be delivered by the Cook Labor
government. It will be a world-best practice facility that will enhance our
chances and opportunities in future Commonwealth and Olympic Games and world
cups. It is very exciting, and I thank the
member again for his tremendous advocacy for sport, more broadly, in his
electorate. It is another reason why on 8 March, when those good people
from South Perth —
Several members interjected.
Mr R.S. Love : Is that the election?
Mr D.A. TEMPLEMAN : What is wrong? What is he barking
at now? What is he doing? He is barking. He is like a little terrier. He is
like a little Shih tzu over there!
When the good people of South Perth vote, I am sure that they
will be looking very favourably upon the member, because the member, after a long
period of conservative government, has delivered so much. He will deliver more
after 8 March.
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