High hopes: David Andersen, at rear, second from left, and Ryan Broekhoff, middle, second from left, and their Boomers teammates are on their way to Spain.
World cup calls for star basketballers Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au FRANKSTON basketballers David Andersen and Ryan Broekhoff have been selected to play in the 12-man Australian team at the FIBA World Cup in Spain. The players were farewelled last Monday before heading off on the Boomers’ pretournament tour of Europe. The team was announced on 28 July and will compete from 30 August-14 September. Their selection followed a week of internal trialling at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra where both Andersen, 34, and Broekhoff, 23, trained as teenagers. The talented pair began as five-year-olds with Frankston Basketball in introductory programs then played in the domestic competition. They were members of Frankston Basketball’s junior representative program: the Frankston Blues. From there, they took similar paths through state representative teams and then into the Australian Institute of Sport and national junior representative teams. Boomers head coach Andrej Lemanis said the challenge of reducing 17 into 12 was made all the more difficult because of the performance of all the players in camp. “The selection process
has been vigorous and thorough,” he said. “The really positive news for Australian basketball is that we have a depth of talent available now which made the final selection process challenging. “I have always said that difficult decisions would need to be made and it was very tough settling on the final squad, which is tremendous credit to all who competed at the camp.” With his team selected, Lemanis’s focus now turns to the Boomers’ European preparation. “I look forward to building together over the next month,” he said. Frankston Basketball president Rob Little says Andersen’s and Broekhoff’s selection was an historic moment for the Frankston and District Basketball Association which he said was the premier sporting association on the Mornington Peninsula with more than 13,000 participants. “To have two athletes selected out of the 12-member team who came through the same basketball association is phenomenal,” he said. Frankston mayor Cr Darrel Taylor was at the players’ send-off said council was working with the association to expand its stadium to cater for more than 6000 members. “We are hoping the state government will commit funding so the project can go ahead,” Cr Taylor said.
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Mr Hodgett said Victoria needed the “sort of visionary thinking” of former Victorian premier Sir Henry Bolte who “zoned land in Hastings for port use back in the 60s”. At the time, Sir Henry envisaged Western Port as being the “Ruhr of the south” – emulating Germany’s massive industrial centre - and said petrochemical companies facing tough environmental laws in Europe should be invited to operate at Hastings. When asked about atmospheric pollution, Sir Henry replied: “it’ll blow away”. Cr Taylor said the GHD report indicated that the benefit to the region would be $60 million a year during the construction phase and $1 billion a year once fully operational. The report was prepared for a consortium of 10 local government authorities including Frankston, the Southern Melbourne and Gippsland Regional Development Australia (RDA) committees, United Energy and Connect East. “The Port of Hastings development provides an enormous opportunity to support and expand our local economy and job supply,” Cr Taylor said. “We have already approved first-class office facilities perfectly suited to government departments and commercial entities with linkages to the port.” Cr Taylor said the GHD study found that construction of the container port at Hastings would mean a “beneficial economic impact of an aver-
age of $60 million a year in gross regional product” over 30 years. This would eventually lead to an extra 5700 jobs by the mid-2030s and 15,200 jobs by the early 2050s. Cr Celi dubbed the Labor Party plan for a new container port near Geelong “fundamentally flawed”. “The proposal to build an eight kilometre-long pier is problematic enough, but when you consider the amount of dredging that would be required to accommodate the larger vessels, it just doesn’t stack up – particularly when Hastings is already a natural deep water port,” Cr Celi said. Before Cr Celi’s endorsement of expanding the Port of Hastings, the shire’s position had been to give “in principle” support. “However, this support has been conditional on satisfactory resolution of the issues raised by the community, particularly ensuring that Hastings is further developed as an environmentally sustainable ‘green port’, and that the necessary transport infrastructure is provided ahead of demand to avoid adverse traffic and rail transport impacts on the shire’s townships,” officers stated in a report to councillors last week. “The business case should also clearly identify the economic benefits to the Shire and the south east region.” The state government has not released cost estimates of upgrading rail and road links to service the new port.
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