Page 2839 - Week 08 - Thursday, 11 August 2016
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To all of my Liberal colleagues—Jeremy Hanson, Vicki Dunne, Alistair Coe, Andrew Wall, Giulia Jones, Nicole Lawder and Val Jeffery—2016 has been a very interesting year to date, and the next 2½ months promise to be even more exciting. We are all looking forward to an excellent election campaign and to 15 October.
Once again, I would like to thank my colleagues and many of their staff, who once again supported our annual charity fundraiser which this year was for Bosom Buddies ACT, which again attracted over 400 guests. In May 2017 we will be holding our 10th charity fundraiser. We will be announcing the nominated charity for 2017 in a few weeks time. That is just a little bit of advance warning. It would be great to see some colleagues from the future opposition come along as well and join us in our dealings with the various charities.
Jeremy Hanson has already thanked all of the staff from the leader’s office. I also thank Ian, Joe, Neil, Jess, James and Jodie for the support they have given all of us. As Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety and the JACS scrutiny committee, I have already thanked all MLA members as well as all the staff from the Office of the ACT Assembly that supported these committees. I thank them once again.
Thanks also to the chamber staff: Clerk Tom Duncan, deputy Max Kiermaier and all of their staff. I thank the attendants: Michele Sidonio, Rod Campbell, Peter Edwards, Paul Oliver, Oscar Zamora, Panduka Senanayake, Brian Allan, Denis Axelby, David Chavez and Sonia Hemmings.
Rick Hart and Ray Blundell did so much for this Assembly and all of us individually and are now enjoying their retirement. I know Ray has caught quite a few big ones, or so he tells us, and Rick still keeps coming back. I wish them well in their retirement.
My thanks also go to those in Hansard, Val Szychowska and her team, to the library, Jan Bordoni and colleagues; and to Ian Duckworth, Emma Talbot and Rachel, and David Skinner. Thanks again to all of you for the support you have given us. And to Neal Baudinette, who did such a great job with the education programs and debates he conducted for ACT schools. I really appreciated Neal’s support for the Assembly overall and us individually. Neal has also retired. Mr Barr, there are so many retirees. I am not quite sure if you are thinking about that at this stage? Neal has done a great job, and we wish him well in his retirement.
Finally, to all of our parliamentary colleagues in government and on the crossbench government: we wish you all well. Without any malice, we hope you have at least 15 years in opposition to keep us focused in government.
Finally, to my family—Maureen, Adam, Amy, Nettie, Ed, Isabella, Noah, Kasia, Andrew and Harry—thank you for your support, love and understanding.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (8.54): I begin by thanking the people of Ginninderra who have done me the honour of asking me to serve them again. I look forward to serving a reduced electorate of Ginninderra in the next term. I know that Mr Coe is a
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