On Thursday Justice David O’Callaghan dismissed the case by consent, with no order as to costs.
“We have been able to build our tennis courts, but we now have a concrete slab instead of a clubhouse, toilets and change rooms … for our members and for our community. Carr said he took his daughter to neighbouring Myrtleford “so she could play tennis on a Saturday morning”, a 60km round trip, while “a lot of people stopped playing tennis” as a result of the lack of facilities.
Carr said the Morrison government’s sport infrastructure program “clearly demonstrates the necessity of a federal integrity commission” so clubs had some form of recourse short of court action against the government, which he described as a “classic David-and-Goliath battle”.
Thank you Vic Labor for rescuing this Tennis club after what was done to them under the former government.