❓ Ms Duncan asks about government support for the Kalgoorlie race round. The Minister details funding through royalties for regions and EventsCorp to enhance marketing and promotion of regional racing events, highlighting the economic and social benefits.
AnsweredQoN 537Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
REGIONAL
SPORTING EVENTS — GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
537. Ms W.M. DUNCAN to the Minister for Racing and Gaming:
The Kalgoorlie race
round kicked off this week.
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Warnbro, you are on three calls.
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie–Preston, this is
not your question. Member for Collie–Preston, I call you to order for
the first time.
Ms W.M. DUNCAN : The Kalgoorlie race round kicked off this
week. Can the minister please advise the house of the support the state government
provides to these important regional events?
SPORTING EVENTS — GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
537. Ms W.M. DUNCAN to the Minister for Racing and Gaming:
The Kalgoorlie race
round kicked off this week.
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Warnbro, you are on three calls.
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie–Preston, this is
not your question. Member for Collie–Preston, I call you to order for
the first time.
Ms W.M. DUNCAN : The Kalgoorlie race round kicked off this
week. Can the minister please advise the house of the support the state government
provides to these important regional events?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the members
for Kalgoorlie and Eyre for their great support of the Kalgoorlie–Boulder
Racing Club. The member for Kalgoorlie is right. The Kalgoorlie race round
kicked off this week in the goldfields. It is a well-known race round that has
been going for many years. It is a fantastic event.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order
for the second time.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : The Kalgoorlie race round culminates in the
Kalgoorlie Cup, which, along with the member for Kalgoorlie, I will be
attending on Saturday. I certainly look forward to that. The area has a great
racing history, starting way back in 1896. Our goldfields towns are pretty
special, and racing always has played, and still does play, a big part in the
goldfields. It thrives in Kalgoorlie. I have had quite a lot to do with the
Kalgoorlie–Boulder Racing Club since I became minister. They work
really hard up there. They do a fantastic job and I wish them all the best.
The government
recognises the importance of racing in regional WA. We have added some funding
through royalties for regions and EventsCorp to try to wrap around our major
cups and carnivals in Broome, Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. That funding expands the
marketing and promotion around events so that other things are going on during
the week. In that way we capitalise and build on the racing event. That is what
is happening in Kalgoorlie.
Mr P.B. Watson interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : The member should not talk about Albany.
The Albany Racing Club has done very well.
I will give members
some idea of what is happening in Kalgoorlie. The round kicked off with the
running of the Boulder Cup—a fantastic event as usual. Yesterday was
the $130 000 Hannan's Handicap race, and tonight we see the Red Dirt
concert featuring Jimmy Barnes. The member for Kalgoorlie and I will be
attending that as well.
Several members interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Are you guys right?
Mr M.P. Murray : We are not listening anyway.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : That is the member's right, but some
people are! Does the member for Collie–Preston not care about this?
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie–Preston, I call you to order for the second
time. Minister, please direct your answer to the Chair and wind this up as quickly
as possible.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : I just started! I have been doing my best!
On Saturday is the $150 000 Kalgoorlie Cup. I encourage members—those
who are not going to watch the Dockers—to come up to Kalgoorlie.
I will finish off, Mr Speaker. I am lucky in my role as Minister for
Racing and Gaming to go to a lot of racing events in Western Australia and to
see firsthand the huge value of those events not only economically and for
tourism, but also socially. We are trying to build on that benefit to tourism
with economic benefits to the community. We are doing that in Kalgoorlie. The
event in Broome at which Icehouse played worked out really well, with huge
crowds; the crowds were bigger than ever before. I am sure the same will happen
in Kalgoorlie.
I congratulate the racing industry, which contributes about $600 million
a year to the economy and employs 17 000 people, giving a lot of young people a
great start in life. I look forward to the Kalgoorlie racing round and to
enjoying this event with the member for Kalgoorlie.
for Kalgoorlie and Eyre for their great support of the Kalgoorlie–Boulder
Racing Club. The member for Kalgoorlie is right. The Kalgoorlie race round
kicked off this week in the goldfields. It is a well-known race round that has
been going for many years. It is a fantastic event.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order
for the second time.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : The Kalgoorlie race round culminates in the
Kalgoorlie Cup, which, along with the member for Kalgoorlie, I will be
attending on Saturday. I certainly look forward to that. The area has a great
racing history, starting way back in 1896. Our goldfields towns are pretty
special, and racing always has played, and still does play, a big part in the
goldfields. It thrives in Kalgoorlie. I have had quite a lot to do with the
Kalgoorlie–Boulder Racing Club since I became minister. They work
really hard up there. They do a fantastic job and I wish them all the best.
The government
recognises the importance of racing in regional WA. We have added some funding
through royalties for regions and EventsCorp to try to wrap around our major
cups and carnivals in Broome, Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. That funding expands the
marketing and promotion around events so that other things are going on during
the week. In that way we capitalise and build on the racing event. That is what
is happening in Kalgoorlie.
Mr P.B. Watson interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : The member should not talk about Albany.
The Albany Racing Club has done very well.
I will give members
some idea of what is happening in Kalgoorlie. The round kicked off with the
running of the Boulder Cup—a fantastic event as usual. Yesterday was
the $130 000 Hannan's Handicap race, and tonight we see the Red Dirt
concert featuring Jimmy Barnes. The member for Kalgoorlie and I will be
attending that as well.
Several members interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : Are you guys right?
Mr M.P. Murray : We are not listening anyway.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : That is the member's right, but some
people are! Does the member for Collie–Preston not care about this?
Several members
interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie–Preston, I call you to order for the second
time. Minister, please direct your answer to the Chair and wind this up as quickly
as possible.
Mr T.K. WALDRON : I just started! I have been doing my best!
On Saturday is the $150 000 Kalgoorlie Cup. I encourage members—those
who are not going to watch the Dockers—to come up to Kalgoorlie.
I will finish off, Mr Speaker. I am lucky in my role as Minister for
Racing and Gaming to go to a lot of racing events in Western Australia and to
see firsthand the huge value of those events not only economically and for
tourism, but also socially. We are trying to build on that benefit to tourism
with economic benefits to the community. We are doing that in Kalgoorlie. The
event in Broome at which Icehouse played worked out really well, with huge
crowds; the crowds were bigger than ever before. I am sure the same will happen
in Kalgoorlie.
I congratulate the racing industry, which contributes about $600 million
a year to the economy and employs 17 000 people, giving a lot of young people a
great start in life. I look forward to the Kalgoorlie racing round and to
enjoying this event with the member for Kalgoorlie.
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