{"id":17341,"date":"2022-07-12T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2022-07-12T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:43:49","slug":"nsw-labor-will-name-a-stand-at-stadium-australia-after-a-female-sports-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/nsw-labor-will-name-a-stand-at-stadium-australia-after-a-female-sports-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Labor will name a stand at Stadium Australia after a female sports legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louise Sauvage, Cathy Freeman, Betty Cuthbert and Sam Kerr are some of the sporting legends who could be honoured under a NSW Labor commitment to\u00a0naming stadium stands after female sports icons \u2013 starting with a stand at Stadium Australia (Accor Stadium).\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>A Minns Labor government will conduct a public consultation process to determine which sporting icon will be honoured first, in response to<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=48e117584f&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0calls<\/a>\u00a0for better recognition of great female athletes.<br>\u00a0<br>Currently, the Sydney Cricket Ground does not have any stands named after female athletes and the new Sydney Football Stadium in Moore Park has named four men who will have stands named after them.<br>\u00a0<br>Stadium Australia in western Sydney does not have names allocated to any of its stands.<br>\u00a0<br>NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sitting in a stadium&nbsp;stand named after a female sporting legend will undoubtedly&nbsp;inspire the next generation of female athletes at the Olympics, Rugby League or in the A-League Women. It&#8217;s a no brainer &#8211; and there&#8217;s no shortage of wonderful female sporting legends in Australia to choose from.&#8221;<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cFemale participation in sport is growing rapidly in NSW, yet we do not recognise great female athletes appropriately. We will make a start in fixing this by naming a stand in Stadium Australia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shadow Minister for Sport Julia Finn said \u201cWhat better way to acknowledge the contribution of female athletes than by naming a stand at Stadium Australia\u201d.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cBut we want every new stadium project in Sydney and regional NSW to recognise female sport legends in a similar manner\u201d.<br>&nbsp;<br>Shadow Minister for Women Jodie Harrison said \u201cWe are quick to recognise the contribution of men in sport, but there is little recognition of women and that needs to be fixed.\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>The NSW Government owns and operates four stadiums in Sydney through&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=3411444c27&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\" target=\"_blank\">Venues NSW<\/a>, and one stadium each in Newcastle and Wollongong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Sauvage, Cathy Freeman, Betty Cuthbert and Sam Kerr are some of the sporting legends who could be honoured under a NSW Labor commitment to\u00a0naming stadium stands after female sports icons \u2013 starting with a stand at Stadium Australia (Accor Stadium).\u00a0\u00a0A Minns Labor government will conduct a public consultation process to determine which sporting icon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/nsw-labor-will-name-a-stand-at-stadium-australia-after-a-female-sports-legend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSW Labor will name a stand at Stadium Australia after a female sports legend&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","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=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}