Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:59): (417) My matter is for the minister for sport, and it concerns the Burwood Tennis Club in my electorate. This is an important and very active tennis club. It has a number of courts – it has four very active courts – and quite a significant membership. It has old metal halide lighting systems on courts one and two and a similar but different system on courts four and five. These systems cannot easily be renewed or upgraded or replaced when there are bulb issues or other problems, so there is a need to replace them in a timely way so that tournaments are not put at risk by globes disappearing. What I am asking the minister to do is to provide a grant in the order of $50,000 for Burwood Tennis Club to replace these lights with modern, low-energy lights that give higher light capacity, lower energy use and also, significantly, provide security into the future.