{"id":15408,"date":"2022-03-11T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:36:58","slug":"labor-commits-2-5-million-to-upgrade-historic-henson-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/11\/labor-commits-2-5-million-to-upgrade-historic-henson-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Commits $2.5 Million to Upgrade Historic Henson Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Albanese Labor Government will invest $2.5 million to upgrade the historic Henson Park rugby league ground in Sydney\u2019s Inner West, transforming it into a multi-purpose sporting facility that will also host major AFL Womens matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the Sydney Swans recently announced that they will officially enter the AFLW in 2023, and the Giants AFLW team playing back-to-back matches at Henson Park in the 2022 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a critical breakthrough for women\u2019s sport locally, the project would also include construction of female change rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upgrade is a joint initiative of the AFL, Newtown Jets and Inner West Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With professional sport increasingly dominated by elite national competitions and mega-stadiums, Federal Labor values that suburban sporting facilities continue to perform a vital role in our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These smaller grounds not only facilitate participation in healthy physical activity for people of all ages, but also enrich communities by bringing neighbours together to support their local teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years Henson Park has had great success in attracting big crowds for Newtown Jets matches by marketing itself to families seeking the experience of \u201cold school\u2019\u2019 suburban football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is a winner all round &#8211; for the two major football codes, for female participation in sport and for the entire community of the Inner West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Upgrading the King George V Memorial Grandstand including additional female friendly change rooms, amenities, medical and umpiring facilities as well as spectator facilities and disability access.<\/li><li>Upgrading the broadcast, coaches\u2019 boxes and officials\u2019 facilities to facilitate television broadcast of games.<\/li><li>Renewing the electronic scoreboard and public address system.<\/li><li>Upgraded toilet facilities including much needed disabled toilets.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Albanese Labor Government will invest $2.5 million to upgrade the historic Henson Park rugby league ground in Sydney\u2019s Inner West, transforming it into a multi-purpose sporting facility that will also host major AFL Womens matches. This comes after the Sydney Swans recently announced that they will officially enter the AFLW in 2023, and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/11\/labor-commits-2-5-million-to-upgrade-historic-henson-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor Commits $2.5 Million to Upgrade Historic Henson Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}