Natasha Griggs (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise today to thank a special group of people who have given their time to assist me in selecting the Anzac Centenary grants in my electorate of Solomon.

I have had the assistance of local community leaders in forming a committee to approve these applications for the government's Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program. The Solomon Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program has $125,000 of funding to be allocated to organisations in my electorate to assist with the commemoration of the Anzac Centenary across Darwin and Palmerston.

Sadly, the requests for funding significantly exceeded the $125,000 that we had available. All applications have now been submitted to the department. They are of an extremely high calibre. The committee had to make some very tough decisions. We had some very innovative and creative proposals and I am sure that the community will be very pleased with the grants that were recommended by the committee.

I would like to conclude by thanking these committee members for their time and their extremely valuable input: Melanie Free; Catherine Voumard; Leanne Hudson; Lia Finocchiaro, member for Drysdale; Natasha Fyles, member for Nightcliff; Tom Lewis; and Ivan Walsh. Thank you very much.