Page 4584 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 26 November 2019
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Jan Jolly for the System Capacity and Workforce Award; the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University for the Research, Evaluation and Quality Improvement Award; Katrina Bracher for the Lived Experience Ally Recognition Award for collaborative work with consumers; Tianne Casey for the David Perrin Award for a mental health consumer living independently; and Natalee Thomas, Terri Warner, Joanne Hargense and Bianca Rossetti for the Michael Firestone Memorial Scholarship, for furthering their education and self-development opportunities as a mental health consumer.
These winners were all chosen from an outstanding field of nominees. It was my privilege as the Minister for Mental Health to meet so many people doing great work of this kind. Roll on Mental Health Month 2020.
Spring fetes
MS CHEYNE (Ginninderra) (3.30): I think November in the ACT really marks fete season—a lot of fairs and a lot of fetes, not just restricted to schools but also at some of our fantastic institutions in the ACT. Like you, Madam Assistant Speaker Lee, it has been a pleasure for me to be able to get along to so many of these.
I want to highlight what a fabulous, fun festive season it has been, kicking off at the start of this month with the CBR Fair Day at the Gorman House arts centre in Braddon, which is always a fantastic display of colour and light and also life and inclusion. I was very pleased to see what a fantastic turnout there was. While most of these fairs right across this month have been marked by very windy days, people did not have a difficult time enjoying themselves. It was a really stunning day.
That day also marked the Radford College Twilight Fete, which always has huge attendance. I was very pleased to see the huge number of people that turned out for that fete. Again, I was very pleased to get along.
But what is a fete if you are not behind the barbecue with some tongs in hand? Florey Neighbourhood Watch over 16 and 17 November had some huge days at Bunnings around town, including at Bunnings Belconnen, where they really put on a huge showing. I think there were no fewer than four or five trips to different supermarkets throughout the day as we were buying them out of frozen chopped-up onion as well as different levels of sausages. I have now learned that it is the Woolworths sausages that cook the most evenly and quickly. That is on the record for Hansard so that everyone knows when they are putting together a barbecue. Sorry, Coles. It had a huge turnout and raised an extraordinary amount of money for Neighbourhood Watch ACT, and it was a pleasure to attend.
I note the remarkable work of Florey Neighbourhood Watch in particular—and that the fabulous Florey Fair is coming up this Saturday and promises to be a really fun event—and also that Aranda is looking to restart its Neighbourhood Watch efforts. Given the focus on policing today, I think we can acknowledge that it is always great to have our community supporting our police in that partnership.
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