Mr WOOD - 2004-02-18
Last Thursday week, there was a great football match held at Marrara Oval between the Western Bulldogs and the NTFL. A constituent of mine took her husband and three children to the match. It cost $67. She also took some sandwiches for her children to eat, thus reducing the need to buy food at the ground and keep the cost down. When she got to the front gate she was told she was not allowed to bring her sandwiches into the ground.
Ms Carter: Shame!
Mr WOOD: She then had to take them back to her car, in pouring rain, before she was allowed in. What do you think of this policy, and will you take up this issue with the AFLNT in light of their efforts to get families back to football? On a related note about getting families back to football, do you believe that only light beer should be sold at Marrara, as I believe happens at Traeger Park?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I welcome the question from the member for Nelson. Whilst the member for Port Darwin can sit back and say: ‘Shame, shame, shame’, it is a shame also that when they were in government none of their Sport and Recreation ministers got in touch with the AFLNT in regard to some of the policies that they have in place.
As we understand it …
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: …they have a board. Did you have a Sport and Recreation Minister who influenced the board? Did he go down and set policy for the board? He very rarely went there at all. In fact, you built this lovely stadium and you walked away from it. You can sit there and giggle …
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: You can sit there and giggle but history comes back to bite you on the backsides once again.
In regards to the good question put to me by the member for Nelson, I will take it up with Bob Elix and Chris Natt, whom I will be seeing shortly, to talk about their policy in regards to people being able to take food and non-alcoholic beverages into the football. We also believe that the AFLNT are going to have a look at their liquor situation in regards to some of the problems that we experienced after the Western Bulldogs/Territory football match just over a week ago.
The grandstand has sold out tickets for this Friday’s Wizard Cup match between the Fremantle Dockers and Essendon Bombers. I think tThere will be somewhere in the vicinity of 12 000 to 15 000 people. It will probably create some hassles in regards to the liquor consumed.
Traeger Park has worked well and the CAFL have used that initiative in Central Australia. It is possible, when the AFLNT review what happens for big matches and the finals series at Marrara, that they may wish to adopt something like that. For not wanting to be some type of media event, I am not going to tell them what they should and should not do. They are big people; they can deal with it, they can handle it. In regards to the liquor licence, there are restrictions.
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: You go on about Territory lifestyle,. nNow you are saying to me, as the minister, I should influence the type of alcohol that they should have. I am the minister who is not going to interfere in sport and recreation activities. If the policy is a problem, I am glad the member for Nelson has raised it here. I will take that on board and I will discuss that with Bob Elix, Chris Natt and their board.
Ms Carter: Shame!
Mr WOOD: She then had to take them back to her car, in pouring rain, before she was allowed in. What do you think of this policy, and will you take up this issue with the AFLNT in light of their efforts to get families back to football? On a related note about getting families back to football, do you believe that only light beer should be sold at Marrara, as I believe happens at Traeger Park?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I welcome the question from the member for Nelson. Whilst the member for Port Darwin can sit back and say: ‘Shame, shame, shame’, it is a shame also that when they were in government none of their Sport and Recreation ministers got in touch with the AFLNT in regard to some of the policies that they have in place.
As we understand it …
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: …they have a board. Did you have a Sport and Recreation Minister who influenced the board? Did he go down and set policy for the board? He very rarely went there at all. In fact, you built this lovely stadium and you walked away from it. You can sit there and giggle …
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: You can sit there and giggle but history comes back to bite you on the backsides once again.
In regards to the good question put to me by the member for Nelson, I will take it up with Bob Elix and Chris Natt, whom I will be seeing shortly, to talk about their policy in regards to people being able to take food and non-alcoholic beverages into the football. We also believe that the AFLNT are going to have a look at their liquor situation in regards to some of the problems that we experienced after the Western Bulldogs/Territory football match just over a week ago.
The grandstand has sold out tickets for this Friday’s Wizard Cup match between the Fremantle Dockers and Essendon Bombers. I think tThere will be somewhere in the vicinity of 12 000 to 15 000 people. It will probably create some hassles in regards to the liquor consumed.
Traeger Park has worked well and the CAFL have used that initiative in Central Australia. It is possible, when the AFLNT review what happens for big matches and the finals series at Marrara, that they may wish to adopt something like that. For not wanting to be some type of media event, I am not going to tell them what they should and should not do. They are big people; they can deal with it, they can handle it. In regards to the liquor licence, there are restrictions.
Members interjecting.
Mr AH KIT: You go on about Territory lifestyle,. nNow you are saying to me, as the minister, I should influence the type of alcohol that they should have. I am the minister who is not going to interfere in sport and recreation activities. If the policy is a problem, I am glad the member for Nelson has raised it here. I will take that on board and I will discuss that with Bob Elix, Chris Natt and their board.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016