Andrew Bragg (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Home Ownership) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's a very important rule for life that a person should never be trusted if they have changed their football team. I just wanted to put on record that the reason I've never changed my football team, despite representing New South Wales, is because of that rule but also because it would be a great shame not to be able to follow the Geelong Football Club, which has started very well in this final series. I know that this final series is giving great joy to people all around the country as we celebrate the magnificent Australian Football League, formerly, of course, the Victorian Football League.

I just wanted to put on record that it was a real pleasure to be able to go to the GWS Giants training facility at Homebush recently and to be given a tour of that facility, which was the beneficiary of a very generous grant from the former coalition government. It was a really fantastic facility to see. Not only do GWS have a great song; they have done a great job of engaging the Greater Western Sydney community. I just want to put on record that the GWS team is definitely the best of the two New South Wales Australian Football League clubs. I look forward to GWS defeating the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night. It was a great opportunity to go and see their facilities. It's really quite an amazing thing to see how many children now in New South Wales and Sydney are playing Australian Rules football. It is the Australian game. I'm very pleased to see that overtake many Rugby League and Rugby Union aficionados.