Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Health, Aged Care and Indigenous Health Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today I'm proud to report that the Rosebery District High School has received national recognition as part of the Anzac Day Schools' Awards for 2022. This year we celebrate 75 years of Australia's involvement in international peacekeeping operations, and this year the judges were looking for schools to produce creative projects honouring our Australian peacekeepers.

Rosebery District High School was the national winner of the remote schools category. Now, this school's entry was created by the boys from years 7 to 10 as part of their boys' wellbeing week activities. They worked with the Study Hub West Coast Manager, Nicky Bolt, to research peacekeepers, veterans, in Tasmania.

That's when the boys were introduced to Clive Starkey, a local peacekeeper from Zeehan on the remote West Coast of Tasmania. Clive had served in the Australian Army's 17 Construction Squadron and was deployed to Namibia as part of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group.

It was a great privilege to be in Rosebery with the students, the teachers and Nicky and Clive for the official announcement to celebrate this outstanding achievement. In presenting those kids their award, I couldn't help but notice the incredibly positive rapport that Clive and those boys shared, and no doubt that rapport is what contributed to the award-winning outcome.

Congratulations to all those involved. And thank you to our nation's peacekeepers.