Portfolio — 1 May 2026
Minister for Sport and Communications Anika Wells announced a near-$2 million Play Our Way grant to the Minyip Murtoa Football and Netball Club in regional Victoria, funding a new netball court, bench seating, a netball shelter, fencing, LED lighting, female changerooms, accessible unisex toilets, and first-aid rooms for football, netball and swimming athletes and umpires [TA-260501-infras-84b6b2024eeb].
The grant sits within the $200 million Play Our Way program, which targets safe, inclusive, quality and sustainable facilities designed to reduce barriers to sport participation for women and girls [TA-260501-infras-84b6b2024eeb]. The announcement is a single-record comms day, with no parliamentary contribution on file. The choice of a multi-sport regional club — serving football, netball and swimming communities simultaneously — reflects the program's intent to maximise the reach of each facility dollar in areas where women and girls face the greatest access constraints.
The infrastructure mix, particularly the female changerooms and accessible amenities, signals that the portfolio frames physical facility design, not only funding volume, as central to participation outcomes.
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