Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

Goldstein residents were dismayed that, despite promises otherwise over the previous three years, the community was sidelined. The reality was lived in October 2022 under the federal budget. The Albanese government slashed $100 million of infrastructure funding from Bayside and Glen Eira. Once slashed, Goldstein was promised we'd recoup the funding, but we got nada, zero, zip. At the 2022 and 2025 elections, we announced funding for Wilson Storage Trevor Barker Oval in Sandringham to upgrade the women's change rooms. Shamed by inaction and for, of course, ripping funding out of the community, Labor then moved to match the funding.

Well, Labor won the election, so I've written to the Minister for Sport and the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and the Treasurer seeking the urgent delivery of this $1.8 million. Young women playing footy deserve a fair go—to have decent facilities equal to men. Ministers, Treasurer, it's time to deliver. Women's footy deserves a fair go and dignity. It's not fair that women miss out. I seek leave to table a copy of the letter to the ministers and the Treasurer.

Leave granted.

I table the letter.

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