Page 933 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Leighton Homes, Konica Minolta, allbids.com.au, Austbrokers, OPC IT, CountryLink, Crust Gourmet Pizza, My Kinda Cleaning, Jim Murphy Airport and Market Cellars, Slaven Mazda as well as Shooters Wholesale Warehouse, Jerseys Megastore and G & A Painters. We are very grateful to all of those businesses for getting behind the Canberra Raiders. Without those sponsors and without all the fans who turn up regularly, the Canberra Raiders would not exist.
I would just like to pay tribute to the management and coaching staff of the Canberra Raiders and say how impressed I was with them. I mention also some of the senior players, particularly Alan Tongue, now Terry Campese and others who I think always acquit themselves very well in public. I think they are great ambassadors for the Canberra Raiders within our community.
I also wanted briefly to make mention of the Canberra Montessori school. I had the opportunity, along with Steve Doszpot and other colleagues, to attend the opening of a new multipurpose building in Holder. I was extraordinarily impressed with the students. I was impressed with their singing. I was impressed with their behaviour. I had the opportunity to speak to a number of the parent body, many of whom have been involved for many years going back with the Montessori school.
I think the school offers something very different. I think it offers something unique, but I think it offers something very important to our educational community and, indeed, to our broader community. I would like to pay tribute to the new principal, Jack Rice, who impressed me. I think he impressed everyone there with his humour in the speech that he gave. He has come from Canada and he has already, I think, made an impression on the community.
The student body sang a couple of songs, one of which was Waltzing Matilda. Afterwards Jack Rice, the Canadian principal, said to me, “I’m looking forward to finding out what that song means.” I think it was an interesting and very endearing comment from someone who is new to Australia but who is already making a great impact. So, to Jack Rice and to all of the parents and staff at the Canberra Montessori school, I would like to thank them for their welcome. I would like to put on record how impressed I was with the school, with all of those associated with the school but, most particularly, with the students and the way they behaved and with the way they sang and entertained us all.
Obviously, I also acknowledge other members of parliament who attended. Annette Ellis and Senator Gary Humphries were also there for the opening.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 6.04 pm.
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