Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today I wear the scarf of South Adelaide Panthers Football Club, not the Australian Rules football team but, indeed, the soccer team based at O'Sullivan Beach. I was very pleased to visit and to open the new women's changing rooms at South Adelaide at the weekend. The women's changing rooms also include umpire changing rooms and, for the first time, provide women's soccer players at South Adelaide the opportunity to have their own changing rooms. Previously, they were changing in the gym, or perhaps having to change in the back of their cars or indeed in the storeroom. This new development really provides the opportunity for women's soccer to flourish at the club.

I have to pay tribute to all those who have worked very, very hard to ensure this construction was made—particularly to Peter Herd, Steve Cox, Paul Wilkinson and Harvey Jolley on the complex grants committee, and also to the chairman of South Adelaide Panthers, Phil Reed, and the secretary of South Adelaide Panthers, Tracey Wesson. It was great to be there with Mayor of the City of Onkaparinga, Lorraine Rosenberg; the City of Onkaparinga made a significant contribution to this development, as did the state government. And it was great to have the state member for Reynell, Katrine Hildyard, there as well. This was a significant development for the club—everyone worked very hard to put this together. I wish the Panthers, and also the Pink Panthers—the women's side—the best of luck for the upcoming season.