Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians) | Link to this | Hansard source

It was a great weekend of basketball on Larrakia country, with the Darwin Salties taking out the women's game against Mackay 75 to 61, with leading goal scorer Cat MacGregor contributing to an outstanding win for the women's Salties. The men's Salties did their best. It was a really tight game, but Mackay took it out. On an even more significant note, I give a huge thankyou to Wheelchair Basketball Australia for getting the National Wheelchair Basketball League back up and wheeling across the courts of Australia. It was wonderful to see the Perth Wheelcats come into Darwin city and play three games against the Darwin Salties. It was an outstanding performance by the Darwin wheelchair Salties, with great crowds at all events—the women's, the men's and the wheelchair events.

We saw the Salties wheelchair team take out the Perth Wheelcats in three out of three games. I have to put the scores on the record: 63 to 46, 72 to 56 and 70 to 66. I thank Perth Wheelcats coach Ben Ettridge and captain Shaun Norris for bringing their team across. I'm looking forward to the next time we have an interstate team come to the Darwin 'croc pot', otherwise known as the Darwin basketball courts. I give a huge shout-out to coach Jason Ivinson, coach of the Darwin Salties, and co-captains CJ McCarthy-Grogan and Tom O'Neill-Thorne, who've led a terrific team there. It's great to see the Adelaide Thunder, the Red Dust Healers, the Southern Districts Spartans, the Wollongong Roller Hawks and the Manly Wheel Eagles all back playing wheelchair basketball across the country. It was an outstanding performance and wonderful to see the game.