Decade of broken promises interview -- Leon Delaney 2CC

28 August 2026

Transcript of spokesman Sandi Logan's interview with 2CC's Canberra Live program host Leon Delaney.

DELANEY: Now, the spokesperson for the Canberra Ice Sports Federation, Sandi Logan joins me. Good afternoon.

LOGAN: Oh, hello, Leon. How are you?

DELANEY: Pretty well. Thanks for joining us today. First of all, the Canberra Brave have just won their preliminary final in Melbourne.

LOGAN: They have. I've been watching it online, and it was great to see them come from behind and pot that fourth goal and put them up ahead and ultimately winning the game.

DELANEY: Yeah, good for them. Good for them. Yeah, fantastic stuff. Do you know who they're playing tomorrow in their preliminary final?

LOGAN: I don't but to be quite honest, I'm very much, not to evade the question, but I'm very much community-oriented, and I don't focus a lot on the Australian Ice Hockey League. I focus on ACT Ice Sports and getting this ice rink built.

DELANEY: Yeah, absolutely. That's all right. We'll keep an eye on that over the weekend. And in the meantime, this week has marked the 10th anniversary of a promise made by the ACT Labor government to build a new ice sports facility in Tuggeranong. And so far, the only thing that's happened is people have talked about it.

LOGAN: Yes, it's been talked about. It's been used as part of Labor's election campaigns on three occasions now. And on the one hand, Leon, you know, not getting any news from the new Sports Minister, Chris Steel, who, of course, is also the Treasurer, may be a portent, may be an indication that he doesn't have bad news for us. It doesn't mean that no news is good news, but it may mean that he's making sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed before he meets with the ice sports to let us know what the next steps are. But you know, 10 years is a long time. It's morale-sapping. We've been hearing lots of undertakings and commitments, but we haven't yet seen anything from the proponents, the Pelligra Group or their facilitators, Cruachan Investments yet in terms of a development application, yet in terms of actually putting a shovel into the ground and turning some sod. And that's the dispiriting, the morale-sapping part of it all.

DELANEY: What sorts of discussions have the ice sports community had with the government? You said you haven't heard back from Chris Steel. That's disappointing, isn't it?

LOGAN: I think we can cut Chris Steel some slack. The new minister has only just been in the job a couple of weeks, and we knew that since January there had been some fairly probing questions that the Bureau of Sport and Recreation and the then-minister Yvette Berry, were asking of the proponents, Pelligra Group, about changes that they were proposing to make. And I understand that these are all commercial-in-confidence, so I don't expect that the community would be brought into that sensitive negotiation. But it has got to the point now where we're down eight or nine months, and we still haven't got an answer to what the next steps are. No one has said we're not going to proceed with an ice rink, so that's great. But we need to get this happening rather than just the talking.

DELANEY: Well, we certainly do. Sandi, thanks very much for chatting today.

LOGAN: Thanks, Leon. All the best.

DELANEY: Thank you, Sandi Logan, spokesperson for the Canberra Ice Sports Federation.