Sport and Recreation.
Doing what matters for Sport and Recreation.
We know Queenslanders love their sport and making the most of our wonderful environment to get out and get active.
The Miles Labor Government is supporting more Queenslanders to be active regardless of age, background, gender or ability, by providing more opportunities for Queenslanders to participate from grassroots right through to being future Queensland Olympians and Paralympians.
The Miles Labor Government is delivering more funding for sport and recreation in Queensland than ever before.
All of our kids should have the opportunity to participate in community sport.
That’s why we’re delivering:
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$200 FairPlay vouchers to 300,000 Queensland children aged between 5 and 17.
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$150 SwimStart vouchers to eligible 0-4 year olds for life-saving learn to swim classes.
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Helping local sporting clubs and active recreation organisations deliver the upgrades they need.
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Go For Gold funding delivering $30 million in schools for new or upgraded sporting infrastructure across our state.
We are also delivering legacy sporting infrastructure that Queenslanders can be proud of, and use for generations to come, like the Moreton Bay Indoor Sport Centre.
And we’re investing $7 million to support at-risk youth, using the power of sport for personal growth and development.
This includes successful initiatives like Moonlight Hoops Basketball, Cairns Safer Streets and REAP the Rewards in Logan.
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That builds on more than $811 million invested in grassroots sport clubs and organisations to provide spaces that enable quality, accessible, inclusive, safe and more efficient activity.
It adds to more than $180 million for 187 female facilities projects, providing sports facilities that are safer and more accessible for everyone, and encouraging more women and girls to participate in sport.
And if re-elected this month, we’ve committed to investing $23.5 million to Harrup Park’s Great Barrier Reef Arena Stage 2, building on our $10 million investment in Stage 1.
This investment will include the delivery of a Community Sports, Education and Training Facility that will build new regional capacity to support a range of sports.
We want to see the Great Barrier Reef Arena become a regional centre for all abilities sport and training and ensure the site is prepared to provide training and competition capacity ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This is all at risk under the LNP.
The LNP don’t have a plan to deliver community sport infrastructure.
Instead, they’ve got a secret plan to deliver a hugely expensive, privatised stadium in inner city Brisbane.
The only way the LNP will be able to deliver this costly project is through cuts to community sporting organisations.
When they were last in Government, the LNP cut $368.4 million from NGOs; and made NGOs sign up to gag clauses, with funding threatened if they spoke out against the Government.
That’s a risk that we just can’t take.