- Crisafulli Government delivers additional $3.5 million for Rockhampton's Browne Park.
- Funding will deliver upgrades to the field, scoreboard and install TV broadcast standard lighting to attract elite sport to the region.
- Queenslanders have now seen 10 months of delivering under the Crisafulli Government, after 10 years of decline under Labor.
The Crisafulli Government has announced Browne Park will receive additional $3.5 million to ensure it is ready to host elite sport when Stage 1 of the redevelopment opens in 2026.
The announcement will allow for home of rugby league in Central Queensland to include infrastructure for the replay scoreboard, field upgrades, turf and drainage improvements and upgraded irrigation.
The funding will also deliver lighting upgrades to meet appropriate standards for night-time television broadcast.
Minister for Sport and Racing and Minister for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tim Mander was onsite for the announcement.
"Browne Park has been the spiritual home of rugby league in Central Queensland for 135 years, and the redevelopment will see it continue to be the epicentre for many decades to come," Minister Mander said.
"The $3.5 million, allocated from the State Budget, will ensure Browne Park is ready to host professional sport as soon as the Stage 1 works are complete.
"The funding allocated by the previous Labor Government wasn't sufficient and without this boost the project wouldn't have been completed to the standard needed to attract NRL games and other professional sports content.
"After 10 years of decline under the former Labor Government, we are delivering critical sporting infrastructure for all of Queensland."
Member for Rockhampton Donna Kirkland welcomed the commitment.
"Browne Park is not only an iconic footy ground, it is very much at the heart of the community here," Mrs Kirkland said.
"The previous Labor Government has once again underbudgeted and under-delivered, leaving a key piece of local infrastructure without field grass or broadcast standard lighting."
"The Crisafulli Government has found an additional $3.5 Million to ensure we see Stage 1 of this project come to completion."
