Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week was National Volunteer Week and, amongst the budget chaos, I was unable to offer my thanks to the volunteers from my electorate. Volunteer week is a week when we can say, 'Thanks a million,' to members of the community and volunteers who offer random acts of kindness throughout the electorate.

I take this opportunity to announce the following people who received special recognition for their efforts during the most recent 2013 floods which inundated my electorate for a second time: Dan and Margot McDade and Elaine and Laurie Dippel from Thornton—we appreciate their efforts; Kane Lutter of Aratula; Sam Van Tuinen from Beaudesert; Nathaniel and Janine Edwards and Megan Wallace from Laidley—we appreciate everything they did to contribute to the community; Maurice Macaulay, Theresa Johnston, Stewart Wall, Colin Fisher, John Middendrop, Dale Woodward, Julie Ferguson and Frank Cimpton, who all volunteered their time with the Beaudesert RSL sub-branch during the floods. Finally, I thank members of the Birnam Rural Fire Brigade, Amanda Ardrey, Karen Dore and Duncan Ritter, who volunteered at short notice to assist in the devastating flood recovery in Bundaberg, many kilometres from our electorate. They made that choice to travel.

These people represent a larger number of my constituents who demonstrated selflessness and compassion during this year's flood. I sincerely thank many of the constituents who gave their mates a hand up— (Time expired)