Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Congratulations to everybody involved with the Redpa Football Club, which was crowned the 2019 national Good Sports Club of the Year. The club received national recognition for inspiring change and building a healthy family-friendly environment.

For the past 20 years, the Redpa footy club has been working towards shifting its culture from one where alcohol was a key pillar of all events to one that is focused on inclusion, family and their juniors. It's not easy to turn entrenched values around, but the Redpa footy club is a shining example of what can be done when you have great local people acting as excellent role models for our younger generation. Sporting clubs across the north-west coast, the west coast and King Island in Tasmania are often the glue that binds our small regional communities together, and it's important that they are inclusive and safe for all members of the community, across all ages.

Well done to the co-presidents, Shane Hine and Tim McLaren—great leaders, great blokes and great inspirers—vice-president, Zach Bransden, treasurer, Anita Hine, secretary, Sarah Cuthbertson and all the volunteers, players, officials and community members involved in this great nation-building club. You embody all that is good with regional sporting clubs. You embody leadership, inspiration and direction.

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