Pascoe Vale electorate
Ms BLANDTHORN (Pascoe Vale) (11:48): (2021) My constituency question is for the Minister for Health in the other place, and the question I ask is how the This Girl Can campaign, which was successfully launched again here yesterday, will support women in my community to get active. My community has a large number of sporting associations, as I am sure many do in this house, and just this week I have spoken about Athena Babo from the Pascoe Vale soccer club, who received this year’s Vicsport award for volunteers, and Peita Price from the West Coburg Football Club, who I have nominated for your award, Speaker, who does an amazing job getting women of all ages and abilities involved in AFL football. On the weekend I attended the Coburg Giants’ season launch and presented to the junior girls their equipment and jumpers for the season. There are amazing groups in my electorate doing fabulous things to get women involved in sport. I think This Girl Can is an exciting campaign, and I ask how it will assist the groups in my community to further engage women in sport.