Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As well as attending dawn services on Anzac Day, many of us attend other services throughout that day. In the electorate of Casey, the Mooroolbark community has a service at noon that has run for a number of years now organised by the local Lions Club. It has grown from small numbers in its initial days. Like many other services now, it has, as I said, become a feature of the Mooroolbark community and it is attended by large numbers of local residents.

I want to pay tribute to the organisers: Peter Giddings from Mooroolbark Lions and Chris Clifton, the honorary chaplain from the Lilydale RSL. One of the reasons this is a great success is that it involves so many parts of the Mooroolbark community, including the secondary schools in the area. On Anzac Day, scripture readings were read by Mooroolbark College school captains, Alisha Ryan and Zachary White. Yarra Hills Secondary College school captains, Chelsea Solomon and Mitchell Wilson, read prayers, and one of the addresses on the day was from 2014 Lions Mooroolbark Youth of the Year, James Cummings, who is in year 12 at Oxley College. They all did a great job. I wanted to make mention of them in the House and to the organisers, Peter Giddings and the team in the Mooroolbark Lions.