Brisbane Broncos' NRL Women's team has received a major boost with Federal Labor committing to $1 million in funding to refurbish the club's women's training facility at Red Hill.

Labor Leader Bill Shorten confirmed his Government, if elected, would make the major contribution to upgrade the Cyril Connell Training and Education Centre - the home of the premiership-winning Broncos NRLW team.

Mr Shorten was joined by Broncos NRLW captain Ali Brigginshaw and teammates Heather Ballinger and Julia Robinson, as well as Broncos NRL captain Darius Boyd, to announce the funding commitment.

A perfect Brissy morning for a run with the @brisbanebroncos women’s team. And thank you for the new running shirt! pic.twitter.com/fa3gPj7IQa — Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) April 7, 2019

He said the upgraded facility would serve a range of functions in enhancing female participation in sport from grassroots to elite level, including:

Providing facilities to allow for vocational training, welfare and health awareness for girls and women;

Enabling career opportunities for women including, mentoring, coaching, educational programs;

Accommodating programs to promote leadership, economic security, safety and health and wellbeing for girls and women.

Being a venue for leadership activities for the club's Beyond The Broncos Girls Academy, providing access to role models, workshops and career events.

Providing short term accommodation for local and visiting Girls Academy students and girls and women’s rugby league teams for coaching and development.

Catering for weekend and school holiday programs promoting sport participation for girls and women.

This investment would also help the Broncos achieve the goal of implementing a long-term strategy to develop a talent pathway as part of a ‘"Brisbane Broncos NRLW Academy".

"A Shorten Labor Government will support the Brisbane Broncos to be the best team possible and to encourage many other young Brisbane girls to play rugby league," said Mr Shorten.

The programs offered by the Brisbane Broncos will focus on talent identification and player development programs specifically for females at a school-based age Bill Shorten Labor Leader

"They will be engaging with children and families to offer holistic opportunities comprising education and career pathways for females in rugby league, from development squads through to professional female rugby league players."

Broncos NRLW CEO Tain Drinkwater praised the funding commitment to help the development of women's rugby league.

"A real focus for the Broncos is to establish a pathway for young girls wanting to play rugby league, all the way through to competing at the elite level," she said.

"This funding will allow the club to upgrade our facilities to a level that can cater to everything from training an NRLW team, right through to providing a base for our community and game development programs."