Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Bankstown is well known for some of the incredible sporting heroes it has produced, people like Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Len Pascoe, Jeff Thomson and John Konrads among them. It has also produced some of incredible artists, some of our great actors, singers and musicians, including the incomparable Bryan Brown, Human Nature and even AC/DC. It is also the home of a great band manager come Prime Minister in Paul Keating.

Bankstown is also the home of the Bankstown Talent Advancement Program. This is a fantastic program that I want to shine a light on today. It has produced talented young people like Paulini and Casey Donovan, who won Australian Idol a few years ago. I am bringing it to the attention of the House because their big show is on this Friday night. It is made up of 24 students from schools around Bankstown. It is run by three incredible women: Kerry Sebio, Helen Payne and Wendy Tierney, who is the mother of two of the boys from Human Nature. This Friday night at Bryan Brown Theatre in Bankstown at 7.30 pm they have their big showcase on. I encourage everybody listening or watching right now: if you are in Bankstown, or even if you are in Sydney, this Friday night, then come along to the Bryan Brown Theatre. You are in for a great show. I promise you: there is nothing better on in Sydney or right across Australia this Friday night than the TAP show at the Bryan Brown Theatre.