Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This coming Monday is Western Australia Day. WA Day is celebrated across my great state with a WA Day Festival. There are events on all around the astounding vastness of this state over the coming long weekend and I urge all Western Australians to get involved and to enjoy the weekend. Of course, I thank all those West Aussies who will be working across the weekend and on the public holiday. Rest assured, Labor will do all we can to protect your penalty rates.

If you are around our beautiful capital city of Perth you might want to get along to the State Of The Art Music Festival. Those in my electorate of Brand might do best to jump on the Labor-built Southern Suburbs Railway up to the city to see this amazing line-up of home-grown artists: rock legends Karnivool, ARIA-award-winning Drapht, the legendary Gyroscope, Bob Evans and the fantastic POW! Negro. And, of course, there is the wonderful Katy Steele and many more.

WA has produced amazing musical talent. You only have to speak to my good friend Simon Collins, the music editor of The West Australian, or to Mike Tucak—a great advocate of the arts and music—to hear that. Or do yourself a favour and go to watch the brilliant documentary Something in the Water, written and directed by Aidan O'Bryan. It shows very clearly that indeed there is something amazing in the artistic waters of Western Australia that continues to produce extraordinary talent in the proud tradition of The Triffids, the Hoodoo Gurus, INXS, The Scientists, Eskimo Joe, Dave Warner's From the Suburbs, Jebediah, The Waifs, the Baby Animals, Tame Impala, SanCisco and Red Jezebel. The list goes on and on. (Time expired)