Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I had pleasure last week in announcing some funding for my electorate. Senator Bridget McKenzie informed me through her Community Sport Infrastructure grants program that Callide United Football Club had received a cheque for $199,999 to benefit their lighting program around the circuit. She threw in $1 extra out of her purse—and I thank her very much for that—to make it a nice, round $200,000.

Pat Conroy (Shortland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Did she declare it?

Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

She would have declared it. It was to replace the old lights, which were 30 years old. So that will mean that they can play competition games at night, and, of course, night training will also come into play.

I also secured funding for the aged-care sector in Flynn: $475,000 to Blue Care Edenvale at Gladstone, an aged-care facility; $455,000 for the Ridgehaven Retirement Complex in Monto; and $400,000 for aged-care services at a facility in Moura. This was gratefully received, and I thank the minister, Ken Wyatt, who has visited my electorate and had no doubt seen the need to help these establishments with this extra funding, which will, of course, look after people who have come to the age where they have to get out of their homes and go into aged-care facilities.