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Ms SHING
Eastern Victoria

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Eastern Victoria Region

Friday, 8 September 2017

Eastern Victoria Region
Ms SHING (Eastern Victoria) — I have a question today for the Minister for Sport in relation to the National Basketball League (NBL) preseason blitz, which began yesterday, kicking off in Traralgon and running until Sunday. It is enabling a range of community activities, including clinics and school visits around the region and wheelchair basketball games during half time at NBL games. This is a really fantastic initiative around community sport and sport participation. I would ask the minister to provide further information on how we can maximise the economic benefit and to detail what the economic benefits and broader community benefits will be as a result of this particular blitz and what they will be in the lead up to the Twenty20 cricket extravaganza, also later in the year, as a result of the government’s investment in sport and sporting infrastructure to the tune of $85 million for the Latrobe Valley.