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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 3588 ..

Ms MacDONALD (continuing):

All those high schools are to be congratulated for participating, and encouraging their students to participate, in the program. If the schools don't get involved then the students won't find out about the program, and it is crucial the schools let the students know in the first place.

I would also like to put on the record the names of the volunteer mentors this year. They are: Amanda Smorhun, Annie Ward, Ayesha Razzaq, Bill Palmer, Brian Weir, Chris Deschamps, David Bellew, David Leaney, Deborah Palmen, Denise Flopton, Eric Chalmers, Erin Pennay, Fiona McAnally, Geoff Perrem, Gillian Stephen, Glen Dewing, Jacey Neden, Jamal Hakim, James O'Brien, Julie Hyland, Julie Sutton, Karen Tandy, Kerry Sullivan, Leeana Gardiner, Liam Smith, Mayumi Smith, Nicole Kettniss, Nicole Leedham, Paul Masson, Philip Melville, Phillip Kingsman, Renee O'Hare, Simon Lette, Susan McDonald, Toni Marsland and Trish Chalmers.

Without the mentors the program definitely would not happen. Somebody with some business experience is needed for the program to even start up, let alone achieve results and make a profit at the end. The mentors of the program I was involved in as a young person were from Westpac and there was much panic the day that the then chairman of Westpac came to listen to our general meeting. We were located on the top of Wales House in the centre of Sydney, which was next to a gym. When I was in the middle of giving my financial report somebody from the gym came out with a skipping rope and, without my noticing and much to the amusement of everybody else in the room, proceeded to do about 50 skips in front of the chairman of Westpac.

As has been mentioned, 11 student companies were involved in the program this year. I should say that the letters "ya"had to appear in the names of the companies, which explains why some funny names appear on the list. The following companies were formed for the program: Coz Ya Can! from Goulburn produced embroidered undergarments and their sponsors were Country Energy, Boyce Chartered Accountants and the Goulburn Workers Club. Deziya from Tuggeranong was sponsored by BusinessACT and the Tuggeranong Community Centre. Funkyard from Belconnen, which won one of the awards, produced personalised clocks from, as I think I said earlier, recycled goods. Their sponsors were the Department of Urban Services and the Canberra Churches Centres.

FYASCO, which produced a book for teenagers, was sponsored by eKonsulting Pty Ltd, Tower Software and the Woden Youth Centre. Junkyard Publishing 2 from Batemans Bay, whose product is not advised on the website, was sponsored by Country Energy and Campbell Page Recruitment.

Maniyak from Queanbeyan, who produced polar fleece scarves, was sponsored by Country Energy and the Queanbeyan City Council. Monshyac from Cooma, whose product is not shown, was sponsored by Snowy Hydro. Now Ya Cookin from Civic produced a recipe book and their sponsor was ActewAGL. Ya Mate from Leeton, whose product also is not shown, was sponsored by the New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development. Yakk from Civic was sponsored by BusinessACT and Yandy Dandy from Wagga Wagga was sponsored by Country Energy and the Wagga Wagga Commercial Club.

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