Varun Ghosh (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last Thursday, along with the Western Australian Premier Roger Cook; the local member for Kalgoorlie, Ali Kent; the local mayor, Glen Wilson; and the president of the Kalgoorlie Boulder Basketball Association, Robert Tagliaferri, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the redeveloped Goldfields basketball stadium in Kalgoorlie Boulder. I value the important role that sport plays in bringing communities, particularly regional communities, together, in improving health outcomes and in providing athletes, young and young at heart, with greater opportunities. This was a project that we can truly be proud of. It involved federal, state and local government as well as the local community and a local community of tradies who put this project together. It was my pleasure to attend this opening, and I commend it to the Senate.