King Electorate Sporting Clubs

Ms LUETHEN (King) (15:14): I rise today to talk about and celebrate some of this year's fantastic local sporting achievements in the King electorate.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms LUETHEN: When I spend time in my local community watching, cheering on and celebrating sporting performances and teamwork, it is a great reminder of how lucky we are that we have a united, harmonious and peaceful community. The Golden Grove Cricket Club (the Brumbies) is a vitally important club to my local community and a club of which I am very proudly the patron.

Recently, the Golden Grove Cricket Club under 12 Maroon side were rewarded for their hard work by taking out the 2018-19 Twenty20 competition. For most of the children in the side, it was just their first season in the under 12 competition, and the way they have played as a strong team and represented our local club should be both commended and celebrated. The club, too, is extremely proud of their efforts. Congratulations to the following team members: Callum Petticrew, Thomas Glen, Harry Slater, Jake Polkinghorne, Ryan Kopec, James Gray, Kyan Smith, Bailey Dand, Caleb Zanker, Kade Vansoe and Casey Elding. A very big congratulations to all the players on their efforts.

A special mention must be made of the team's coaches, Adam Polkinghorne and Kym Gray. Without your support, encouragement and guidance I am sure the boys would not have been able to achieve this great result. Thank you. I will also take the opportunity to thank the Golden Grove Cricket Club seniors for inviting me to their seniors' night presentation. A special callout to Alex Higgins, A2 Player of the Year, who won so many awards for his stellar performances. Good luck on your future. I urge the community to watch your career carefully. Thank you to the Lynch family for dedicating so much time and passion to the club. Thank you for your family's important contribution to the club. Go the Brumbies! Moving away from cricket and into netball, as patron of the SADNA I was recently given the opportunity—

The SPEAKER: There is a point of order.

Mr BROWN: Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to the state of the house.

A quorum having been formed:

Ms LUETHEN: Well done to all the teams that reached the grand finals at SADNA. A special mention to the Inter 1 premiership-winning Tango team: well done to all players and the leadership of Tango, led by Angela Lloyde, President of the Tango Netball Club. Tango's Inter 1s became undefeated premiers in a convincing win against the Comets. The Tango Junior 3 team took on the Zodiacs. A comeback win saw them up by three at the end of the game. Big congratulations to Michael and his team on a wonderful effort and a spectacular season. I want to say a huge thankyou to all the players, coaches, umpires, committee members and parents who make our local netball competition possible.

In one year, nearly 400,000 people pass through the SADNA courts at Golden Grove. It is an incredibly special association in the north-eastern suburbs, and it brings together so many netball-loving families from right across the north and north-eastern suburbs. The association's president, John Adams, is incredibly dedicated and passionate about netball, and his SADNA committee is doing a fantastic job leading the association and pursuing a clear strategy to further increase participation in netball.

I am so pleased that the Marshall Liberal government has delivered on its promise to SADNA to provide $320,000 to the City of Tea Tree Gully council to improve car parking and traffic flow at the site. Anyone who travels along Atlantis Drive on a Monday or Tuesday night is familiar with the frustrating traffic congestion due to the overflow from the SADNA car park.

This funding will be utilised to improve car parking traffic flow, increase the size of the parking facility, provide better lighting and provide additional exit points to provide a quicker and safer traffic solution. This work is due to commence in December 2019. This incredibly important improvement will benefit many members of the netball community living in not only the King electorate but right across the north-eastern suburbs. In addition, it will provide a welcome relief to residents living close by.

Finally, I was also given the opportunity to present end-of-season awards at the Golden Grove Little Athletics Association, an event so well attended by our local community. Thanks, Owen Gillingham, for inviting me and for organising the most well-attended AGM I have ever been to. Thanks to all the parents and volunteers who make this club so successful. These clubs, players, volunteers and officials all play such an important role in connecting our community in King, and I am so proud to support these clubs and advocate for them to achieve their future plans, which will increase participation even further. Sports participation is essential to our community wellbeing and connection.