Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Thistlethwaite for the supplementary question. I refer to one particular example: through the Australian Sports Outreach Program, the Gillard government is providing $5 million over five years to three sports—Netball Australia, Surf Life Saving Australia and the Football Federation of Australia—to provide support, including technical support, to seven Indian agencies to develop deeper people-to-people links through sport. In particular, on a visit that I made not so long ago to India—to New Delhi—I was fortunate enough to visit the Magic Bus Foundation and Naz' partners in May. Through a simple netball game being played with disadvantaged young women, you could really see the potential of sport. Netball was the platform for learning, not just the motor skills and the rules of the game, but indeed for building self-esteem, for motivation— (Time expired)