Thursday, 13 August 2026

 Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:48): (2507) My constituency question is for the Minister for Public Transport. The Blackburn Bowls Club has been granted $80,000 from the SRL Community Projects Fund to resurface its bowling green, with works due to begin shortly, having co-funded that $80,000 figure with money that they have raised studiously themselves. But to date the funding has not arrived as scheduled, and the club is now rightfully questioning whether it will receive it at all, given the Premier’s review of the SRL. The bowls club cannot hedge the government’s second thoughts, and it has volunteers, a green in need of resurfacing and a contractors start date, so it needs the funding now. My question to the minister is this: will the grants already committed under the SRL Communities Project Fund, including the $80,000 for Blackburn Bowls Club, be paid in full, and when?