Page 3746 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 23 November 2022
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in that matter. Perhaps, Madam Speaker, you could look at this and come back to the chamber with some advice.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Gentleman.
Executive business—discharge of orders of the day
Motion (by Mr Gentleman), by leave, agreed to:
That all items of Executive Business, orders of the day, relating to taking note of papers be discharged from the Notice Paper.
Adjournment
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Schools—fetes
MR PARTON (Brindabella) (5.42): There are many arguments in this town about which is the best school fete in the city—they can be savage arguments; they can lead to fisticuffs—or about which is the best school fete in the Tuggeranong Valley. I am not going to make a claim that the St Thomas the Apostle fete at Kambah is the best, but it is definitely in the top 10. I rise today to briefly pay tribute to all of those who were involved in any way with another amazing fete at St Thomas the Apostle in Kambah the weekend before last. That was awesome.
I could see when I arrived, because of how far away the cars were parked, that Boddington Crescent was the place to be in Kambah on that day. They were blessed with spectacular weather on the Saturday, but I think the biggest blessing came from the obvious hard work and dedication from all those involved. The bar has been set high at St Thomas the Apostle, but it just keeps on getting higher.
Thanks for letting me be the first chocolate wheel spinner on the day and thanks for all the smiles and the warmth from a close-knit, hardworking school and church community. I spent some time on the day with the principal, Ursula Jamieson, who would not accept any praise personally; she continually pointed to the fete committee and the volunteers and stallholders.
As I was reflecting on the enormous success of the St Thomas fete at Kambah, I rocked up to St Clare of Assisi at Conder—wow!—and their twilight fete on Friday just gone. I pretty much had to park over at the Namadgi Visitors Centre and walk from there. The volume of cars was ridiculous. They cannot wait for the tram—but that is a whole other story. I spoke to so many from the school community but also from way outside the school community.
That was certainly the case in both of those fetes. There were so many people there who had nothing to do with the school; they were just drawn to this amazing event. They were drawn because we are back on! After several years of shutdowns,
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