Fantastic facility: Ballymore Stadium redeveloped on existing grounds

big few months with the the Rugby World Cup looming and big few years for Queensland but the Olympics a decade away or been under that now you were opening some rugby training facilities today talk us through it what uh other prospects here and and is there any links to the upcoming Olympic Games as well in terms of these facilities in Queensland yeah thanks Karen as you

know somebody follows rugby ballymore has really been the spiritual home of Rugby Union Queensland uh for probably 50 years and it fell into disrepair and there's been a proposal to develop it for many years now and finally the federal and state governments contributed money and they built a fantastic facility where they've made use of the existing grounds the great news is is that the Wallaroo so

the female Australian rugby team that'll be headquarters there and these are state-of-the-art facilities as good as anything I've seen in any of the football crowds across the country that they'll have access to as long as the as well as the existing Queensland men's and women's teams and then over the next 10 years in the lead up to the Olympics it will end up becoming the hockey

center for the Olympics as well so it really is exciting to see good facilities that ensure that men's and women's teams are on a nickel footing but then we're starting to see that Olympic transformation as well and that's really exciting for the city the state and I think the country in terms of what will be available for the community on post 2032 and in the lead

up to