Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

This Friday, 27 August, is Daffodil Day. One in two Australians are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes and I'm just one of the millions across Australia who have been forever impacted by the scourge of this disease: my beautiful wife, Amanda Jane, died of lymphoma in her early 30s.

But because of the great work of organisations like the Cancer Council, every day I'm hopeful that we're another day closer to finding a cure. Over the past three decades survival rates for many types of cancers have improved by more than 20 per cent, but there's more to be done. So if you're like me and live on the north-west or west coast of Tasmania, visit one of these great local businesses who are hosting Daffodil Day: the Railway supermarket—the IGA Everyday—in Queenstown; Woolworths in Smithton, Wynyard and Upper Burnie; the Somerset Newsagency; North-West Regional and Mersey community hospitals; Burnie Plaza; Bunnings in Devonport and Burnie; TerryWhite Chemmart in the Four Ways; the Penguin Newsagency & Tattslotto; Coles in Devonport; SUPA IGA in Shearwater; Banjo's Devonport; and Hill Street Grocery in Latrobe.

This Friday I encourage everyone across Australia to 'Show your Flower Power', donate to the Cancer Council and join the fight against cancer, to eliminate it from the world.

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