You are a safe seat. Therein lies the problem. Parties are only for the people if they need the vote.

Answer. Make is a non safe seat and you will have a chance.

I love your thinking. Hard to do when the Libs sometimes don't even put up a candidate.

That's really only one part of the dilemma.

Membership numbers/number of voters
Priority for the sport in the state
Lobbying with both major parties
Funding at all 3 levels of Government
and lastly patience.

Nunawading have been working on this funding for over a decade. Serious lobbying, member engagement, BV support etc.

Basketball venues are extremely expensive in comparison to outdoor sports. Always up against it, and in every state there are complaints of underfunding and a lack of the necessary courts to continue to support the growth of the game.

Time to move.

Wow, that escalated quickly.
Another way is to get the local MPs or any local politician kids to play basketball.
From memory the rumour was that Chris Pines kids played for Norwood, suddenly millions were given in grants to build the ARC.

Sorry Dr Dre. not sure who you are or what beef you have with me. Obviously I have rubbed you up the wrong way at some point. As for becoming a politician (or a bully) as you call it, I am absolutely one for putting up my hand in these situations and not just yelling from the cheap seats. I have sat down with every local politician, and the sporting politicians at a state and federal level, got a commitment from the Melbourne Showgrounds for a temporary solution which was poo-pooed by the local member and have advocated from many different angles. It staggers me to think the time I would have put into this. Given I won't directly benefit from them being built, and my kids will be well out of juniors by the time it does happen, I would think that my advocacy is driven by a want to get my sport what it truly deserves. Are Church Halls and 40 year old high school courts all we can do in this area. If I have to be a 'whinging little b*tch' to get what we are owed, well I am happy to take on that role. If we had more people advocating for this over the years, we wouldn't be in the hole we are in now.
Thank you for allowing me to explain my position further.

Owed, interesting word. Hard to quantify

Agree Sebastian. 'Owed' probably wrong choice of word. 'Needed' probably better. Just hard to fathom that a community can go so long without any new facilities. I would take a 2-court stadium at the moment. Although 10 courts wouldn't scratch the surface.

Agreed it would be great to have new courts in Moonee Valley

Most courts around Melbourne have been upgraded in recent decades/years- a few examples from not too far away from Moonee Valley- Altona, Keilor, Broady. Some of those are in safe seats too, so I'm not sure that's the full answer

Keep on fighting though

The funding promises being made to rebuild Nunawading Basketball Stadium are a furphy.

A new Stadium would cost at least $100 Million ... and more likely to be closer to $150 million.

Whitehorse City Council has committed approx $35 million to the project.
Labor has promised $45 million. Coalition has promised $30 million.
Victorian State Government has not committed any funding for this project and is unlikely to do so given the current state of its finances.

Nothing committed by either Basketball Victoria or Nunawading Basketball Association at this stage.

One has to wonder why Nunawading Basketball did not relocate to the new State Basketball Centre.

I would be pleasantly surprised if this project gets up. The current facilities are well past their "Used By" date and border on being unsafe for both players and spectators.

Ideally, a brand new facility with a lot more courts would be the go. However, if the funding wasn't there for that, a total refurbishment of the existing facility inc. better air conditioning, larger court surrounds and better spectator seating (even if it meant reducing the facility to 4 courts) would be a significant improvement over the current situation.

No one in their right mind is reducing the facility to 4 courts

The redeveloped venue is proposed as a 10 court facility.