Estimates - Sport - Domain Athletic Centre

Ms BURNET - I want to take you now to the Domain Athletic Centre and on 28 February, I don't know if you were there, but the Hobart Track Classic was on. Mr Fairs actually did the media release on behalf of the government in relation to that. It was a great event, but I'm just curious to know what sort of priority athletics is for your government.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I couldn't see any specific infrastructure spending. Again, I know this is a Hobart City Council run facility, but this is the state athletics track, and it was pretty tired and pretty embarrassing to have some of the worst track in the country, I would hazard a guess. What is your government doing to invest in athletics, a really accessible sport for youngsters to keep them healthy?

Mr DUIGAN - Yes, it's one of the great sports, and at least at a community level you don't require hugely expensive infrastructure to enable kids to participate. In terms of the domain and other athletic facilities owned by the state, again, that would be something we would contemplate through the infrastructure plan. Brett, anything that you're able to bring to the table regarding our current plans around athletics infrastructure?

Mr STEWART - Nothing specific, minister. We do provide some funding through one of our funding programs to Athletics Tasmania, but that's not for infrastructure, it's for helping them increase their capacity to operate. Obviously, being a council-owned asset, we engage with councils regularly on their assets and they can approach government for funding support. We haven't had a specific approach that I'm aware of around -

Ms BURNET - It might have been for the shotput some years ago that Mr Street was looking after - but we've got the athletics facility and you're building a $1.13 billion stadium just over the hill. I mean, it seems like a very poor cousin in the sporting world, to be honest.