My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Community Sport. The action I seek is that the minister acknowledges the need for the Central Goldfields Shire Council to finally deliver the Maryborough Soccer Club a permanent, fit-for-purpose home at Jubilee Oval. The Maryborough Soccer Club has been part of our community since the early 1980s. For more than four decades generations of players have pulled on their boots, representing Maryborough with pride. Yet in all that time they have never once been given the dignity of a permanent home. Instead they have been shuffled from venue to venue, always welcomed but never settled, always contributing but never granted the certainty that they deserve.

For the past 10 years the senior teams have played at Jubilee Oval. That is a decade of commitment, a decade of showing up, a decade of building a strong, inclusive, thriving club culture and still no security of tenure, no long-term plan, no clarity about the future. Since at least 2017 the club has worked patiently with the Central Goldfields Shire Council to secure a suitable long-term facility. They have done everything asked of them, but despite their best efforts the council has dragged its heels. Year after year the club has been left waiting and our community has been left frustrated.

Meanwhile the club has exploded in size. In just three years they have grown from 30 players to around 140, an extraordinary 300 per cent increase. Junior participation alone has skyrocketed from 15 ‍children to more than 100. This is one of the fastest growing clubs in the entire shire, yet they remain without a permanent base. The Maryborough Soccer Club needs certainty. They need a home that they can invest in, grow into and proudly call their own, a home that reflects their contribution to our community and their enormous potential for the future. I would welcome the minister’s support for this incredible club and for the Central Goldfields shire to finally give the Maryborough Soccer Club the permanent home that they deserve at Jubilee