House debates

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Constituency Statements

Goldstein Electorate: Australia Day Awards, Beijing Winter Olympic Games

10:03 am

Photo of Tim WilsonTim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | | Hansard source

The Goldstein electorate is a proud one because it is built on the success of its citizens, families and communities coming together to build the foundation of the strength of our nation. Each Australia Day we honour and celebrate those Australians who have taken responsibility for the wellbeing of not only themselves but our community and our nation as well.

Goldstein is excited to have 11 local recipients recognised this year in the Australia Day awards, including Mr John Wylie AC—the highest honour that can be afforded—for eminent service to the community through leadership in the sporting, cultural, philanthropic and business sectors; Dr Mimi Colligan AM for significant service to community history and heritage preservation; Ms Mary Duffy AM for significant service to medicine in the field of lung cancer; Mrs Mary Dawes OAM for service to the community through charitable organisations—she is better known as Liz and is one of my neighbours—particularly for her incredible work through the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation and the annual Connor's Run; Mr Alan Frees OAM for service to education administration and to the law; Mr William Horsfall OAM for service to the pharmacy profession; and Mr Jamie Hyams OAM, who will forever be a councillor in my view—he's a former councillor for the City of Glen Eira. Congratulations, Jamie OAM, for your service to local government and to the community of Glen Eira but also, of course, for the incredible work and support you have always provided to one of the communities that enriches the Goldstein social fabric, which is the Jewish community.

There was also Ms Jessica Morrison OAM for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020; Dr James Taylor OAM for service to emergency medicine and to the community; Mr Colin Dobson PSM for outstanding public service to education in the great state of Victoria; and Inspector Caroline West APM for her service to the community. Individuals create a stronger society through their charity by voluntarily applying their efforts to improve the community as a whole. Those who take that sense of responsibility are the foundation and the strength of our nation. We congratulate Goldstein's Australia Day honour recipients and thank them for their service. In the coming months we will have those for the Queen's Birthday as well.

I would also like to give a big shout-out to Brighton local Brodie Summers, who represented Australia at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. He has already completed. Well done, Brodie, and congratulations on your incredible achievements in getting into international sport—as we have many who participated in the summer Olympics as well. It's an incredible achievement and not just for yourself but for your family and friends who supported you to achieve and realise your dreams. Congratulations on your efforts and best wishes for the future.