Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to inform the chamber about the exciting project that is taking place in my electorate under the banner of the Australians of Indian heritage war memorial monument and bursary project. This committee, chaired by Surendra Prasad, has been working with the local RSL, the Sunnybank RSL, to establish a memorial to the Australians of Indian heritage—the many who served in World War I, World War II and up to the present day. There has been a design competition and they actually judged the winning design with Griffith University students on the weekend. The committee that judged the many, many submissions were: Professor Sarva-Damon Singh; Captain Chetan Chandgrove; Harry Claassen, representing the Sunnybank RSL; Lewis Lee, not exactly of Indian heritage but, because he had been involved with the RSL with the Chinese heritage war memorial project, he was able to work with them; and Professor Gordon Holden and his representative. They went through the many submissions, came up with 11 finalists and on 12 November, this Saturday night at the fundraising dinner, they will announce the winner. The dinner is being held at the Sunnybank RSL, only $50 a ticket, and you can contact surendra1@bigpond.com for tickets. I am sure it will be a great night and I look forward to seeing you there.

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