Rick Wilson (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to commend a great community initiative called Mobility Devices for Fiji, which will be launched this Friday at the Albany show in the Great Southern region of O'Connor. Mobility Devices for Fiji is the brainchild of Joseph Raikoti, a disability support worker with Community Living Australia and a proud Fijian-born Australian living in Albany. This project will deliver mobility equipment from the electorate of O'Connor to our friends in Fiji. It's a project I'm proud to support in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Albany City, Scott Leary MLA and the City of Albany.

In the course of his work, Joseph noticed that a surplus of mobility equipment was no longer being used or had been discarded or sent to landfill. He thought the life of this equipment could be extended and the equipment used in communities in and around Suva through his connection with the Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation. Mobility Devices for Fiji will be collecting wheelchairs, walkers, sticks, crutches, walking frames and shower chairs, with the aim of delivering them to Fiji in the first half of 2026. I'm proud to endorse this practical O'Connor project that will deliver important social outcomes in Fiji and strengthen the links between the people and organisations of our two great countries.

See this speech in context