Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In the past three years more than 330 individuals, not-for-profits, sole traders, small and medium businesses and local councils have rolled out over 700 projects across the electorate of Braddon on behalf of the federal government. They are Braddon's unsung heroes, and I have no doubt that you'd know, Mr Speaker, many people in your electorate just like them. They're the doers in our community, and it's their tireless efforts that's the remarkable story today.

Delivering hundreds of projects during a global pandemic is a badge of honour that they should wear with pride: to put your hand up to build, employ, create, support, celebrate or commemorate when access to trades and materials is enormously challenging, budgets have blown out and goalposts are shifted. Now that's inspirational. I, for one, am not surprised by our region's resilience and perseverance to get the job done. It simply reconfirms what those who live in the north-west, on the west coast and King Island have always known: when confronted with a problem, we don't whinge about it; we roll up our sleeves and simply get on with it. That's why our region continues to surge ahead when so many others are stalling. On behalf of the federal government and the electorate of Braddon, all that's left to say is a huge thanks to Braddon's doers.