Karen Andrews (McPherson, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Friday last week marked the start of the year-long countdown to the 100th anniversary of Surf Life Saving Queensland's Point Danger Branch. What a fabulous milestone and achievement that will be. Each month over the next year we will see highlighted some of the achievements of that branch and what it has done to support the southern Gold Coast community.

Point Danger Branch is Queensland's oldest surf lifesaving branch. It's got more than 6,000 members across 11 clubs on the southern Gold Coast—and let me give each one of those clubs a shout-out and a huge thank you, and to their members, for making sure our locals and visitors to the Gold Coast are kept safe on our beaches. Thank you, Rainbow Bay, Tweed Heads, Coolangatta, Kirra, North Kirra, Bilinga, Tugun, Currumbin, Palm Beach, Pacific and Tallebudgera. You do an absolutely amazing job keeping us all safe on the coast.

The work of the Point Danger Branch is incredibly important. Making sure that we have well-trained lifesavers patrolling our beaches and that the administration of the clubs is where it should be is incredibly important. That's what the Point Danger Branch does. It works with the clubs to make sure that everyone is doing what they need to do when they need to. I give a huge shout-out to them—a hundred years, a great achievement.