Craig Thomson (Dobell, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to commend the work of the volunteers of the Wyong Family History Group. It is an organisation that has been running now for 25 years, and on the June long weekend I had the pleasure of attending their birthday celebrations at Wyong. This is an organisation that is wholly made up of volunteers. With the number of volunteers that they have, they are able to have their offices open most days for the public to come in and look at the history of their families in the Wyong shire as well as family history from other areas; it is not restricted to the Wyong shire.

They do a tremendous job in illuminating the very rich history that the Wyong shire has had; the people who have lived there, from the early 1800s onwards; and the logging industry, which was the major employer and the major reason for expansion in that area. I commend the work that these volunteers do. They do a tremendous job and they help make sure that people who want to trace that important history have the opportunity to do so.