LNP Policy: $16 million boost for family sports fees announced

[DIEHARD]

$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.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1226244665960

[DIEHARD]

I'm a Labor man but this is a good policy. Sport and recreation needs more funding and parents need help to keep their children involved.

[shamus]

Bit bloody late now......All my kids are grown up and gone!

Thinking about coming out of baseball retirement...........Wonder if I am covered

[TITAN PETE]

Bit bloody late now......All my kids are grown up and gone!

Thinking about coming out of baseball retirement...........Wonder if I am covered

Masters here we come