Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday, if you happened to be enjoying a beautiful Adelaide summer down at Brighton, you would have been completely overwhelmed by a sea of blonde wigs, love hearts, sunglasses and white bathers because yesterday a record 516 women, men and children dressed as Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe participated in the 10th annual Marilyn Jetty Swim as part of the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club's Brighton Jetty Classic. Brighton local Sarah Tinney founded the event in 2013 in honour of her late mother, who passed away from uterine cancer in 2007. Sarah was the South Australian nominee for the Australian of the Year Local Hero Award for her work in our community.

The Marilyn Jetty Swim raises money for Cancer Council South Australia and is a really important local fundraising exercise. This year the organising committee had a fundraising target of $185,000 for cancer research and cancer services, but they actually raised $250,000. This brings the total raised by the event to over $1 million—an incredible effort by all involved. This year's swimmers included my friend and South Australian parliamentary colleague Sarah Andrews, the member for Gibson; Amanda Wilson, the mayor of Holdfast Bay; and Jayne Hoffman, councillor for Woodlands in the City of Marion. I really commend their efforts. (Time expired)