Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There's a sports competition going on at the moment , with t he Australian Parliament Sports Club playing a variety of teams made up of members o f our Australian Federal Police and Australian Defence Force, fir ey s and journos. This morning it was tennis. My tennis partner was none other than the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, and we were beaten, unfortunately, by a couple of Australian federal policemen, fantastic blokes, whose names were also Anthony and Luke. So Anthony and Luke won—great fellas. I don't think I did my promotion prospects for the future any good with my performance! We also played a rugby game as part of this fantastic Parliament Sports Club program. The idea of it is really to acknowledge our first responders—our police and our members of the Defence Force—and, in a social way, get to know them.

I really want to give a massive shout-out to the sterling work of Mr Andy Turnbull, who runs the Parliament Sports Club. It's a wonderful club, established in 2005. We've had generations of politicians and other sportspeople taking part since then, raising $750,000 for charities during that time. The club strengthens relationships with parliamentarians and businesses from around Australia and internationally. It's a great organisation. (Time expired)