Considering bulldog said “overlooked” in original plans and Adam stated change rooms size were increased they both can be right.
how long has “the original ballymore development” saga been going for? I remember Johnny Howard announced funding for it & qld very own Kevin Rudd said it was a waste of money … all the way back in 2007.
tell me again how much interest there was in woman’s sport back in 07? Next to nothing… supporting our woman in sports has only been a recent phenomenon and there’s still a lot more work to be done… but it’s a start which is the main thing.
Howard promised John O'Neill and the ARU funding for an academy at Ballymore. The catch was that the ARU would have taken over Ballymore in a joint venture with QRU (wouldn't that have worked out well...).
The QRU chairman at the time hated Labor and refused to ask Rudd to match it - remember this was only a few months before the election and the Kevin 07 shirts were already flying off the shelves. Same chairman who was in charge when the QRU lost $13m under his leadership.... Rudd won the election, so he had his own promises to pay for. Pure incompetence from the QRU chair. Rudd has since told people that a simple phone call before the election would have got the money. (But then RA would own Ballymore,...)
Also think you'll find there were always women's change rooms (national HQ for women's XVs and all that) but they got expanded due to the Government insisting that the toilets got moved following the floods - which created a bit of extra room to expand the change rooms.