Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As the parliament comes to an end, with the final week of the sitting period, I just want to get to my feet and wish a very merry Christmas to everyone, particularly those amazing people in my electorate who make our community such a beautiful place to live, including our Rotarians, our Lions, our service organisation people and our hospital auxiliary boards—people who give their time freely and do so without seeking any accolade. They just want to serve their community and their fellow man.

I want to acknowledge, in anticipation, our emergency response teams. We've had, in our electorate, seven floods in 12 years. So far, to date, from a weather perspective, we have missed the type of carnage that we are used to. I just want to acknowledge our SES personnel, our rural firefighters, our police officers and our ambulance personnel, who put their lives aside and get to the front line when it's needed.

I want to acknowledge and pay credit to our senior graduating students who are finishing up this year. I was privileged to get to a number of their graduation ceremonies and I look forward to watching the journey they take in the next chapters of their life books. I want to acknowledge our schoolteachers, our staff and even our cleaners at our schools. Without them, we would be poorer.

I want to acknowledge my partner, Christine. In the spirit of forgiveness, I want to wish all the Labor Party colleagues on the other side a very merry Christmas. And, as a sign of absolute Christmas spirit, merry Christmas to the crossbench as well!