$16 million boost for family sports fees announced in LNP policy
STRUGGLING families will receive help to pay their child's sporting fees under a $16 million LNP policy announced this morning.
Under the Get in the Game policy $8 million will go towards improving community sporting facilities, $2 million towards equipment and the expansion of sporting services and $6 million towards helping families pay their child's sporting fees.
LNP leader Campbell Newman said a voucher system would provide families who cannot afford the fees with up to $150 per child.
Mr Newman said the voucher system would be means tested with 40,000 club membership subsidies to be handed out over the policy's three-year life.
Clubs will have to chip in 20 per cent of the total project cost to be eligible for the one-off $100,000 grants for facility development and upgrades.
Two hours later Premier Anna Bligh unveiled a new Volunteering Queensland smartphone application to streamline the organising of future mud armies.
She then joined former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at a sausage sizzle in Orleigh Park.
The Premier refused to speculate further following her comments regarding the possibility of a March election but promised the March 31 council elections would not be moved.
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