Analysis shows one-third of Labor’s seat-specific announcements and 15% of Coalition’s are sport-related
The “sport” category covers any promise relating to sports facilities, infrastructure, team funding, and so on. There have been more than 260 funding announcements of this nature made by the two parties.
But the Coalition is slightly ahead on the scoreboard, committing $500,000 more to Launceston City’s Prospect Vale Park than Labor, with both parties pledging $2.3m to Brighton’s Seymour Street precinct. They have often come with an intangible benefit to the candidate or MP announcing them: the opportunity for colour and movement that may be compelling enough to get them on the TV news. Although it does not always go according to plan .
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