Zoe Daniel (Goldstein, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

DANIEL () (): If you look out the window on the train to Ormond, you might spy the charming Glen Orme Tennis Club tucked away under the gum trees in the small street by the railway line. My thanks go to its president, Tom Quinn, who invited me to help launch Glen Orme's Try Tennis program on Saturday 16 September. Try Tennis offers four free tennis lessons to first-timers in Goldstein. Held during the day through the week and on Saturdays, the club is particularly seeking to give access to stay-at-home or single parents, people from non-tennis cultures and shiftworkers like paramedics and nurses in our community. The program is also targeted at Goldstein's culturally and linguistically diverse community groups, including many represented as parents of children in their existing coaching program.

The Glen Orme community tennis club has operated for over 60 years, supporting junior tennis, pennant tennis, tennis coaching, social tennis and casual tennis. With evidence showing ever-increasing loneliness and isolation for many in our society, I commend Tom and everyone at Glen Orme Tennis Club for their efforts to look after and engage with the wider community and for thinking outside the square to provide a program welcoming those not from a traditional tennis-playing background. I wish them the very best and much success with their Try Tennis program and community club.

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