Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to congratulate all of the recipients of honours in this year's King's Birthday Honours List. Goldstein is blessed with incredible residents who make enormous contributions to our community and who stand up and take responsibility not just for themselves but for others, and they should be rightly honoured every year—not just in the Australia Day Honours but in the King's Birthday Honours as well.

I'd like to start by acknowledging and congratulating Anthony Barry AM, who was honoured for his significant service to civil engineering. I also congratulate Alan Oppenheim AM, who was honoured for his significant service to the skin healthcare industry. He's one of the great success stories of the Goldstein community in establishing the company Ego Pharmaceuticals with his wife, Jane. If you know Ego Pharmaceuticals—you would have tried out their hand sanitiser in different parts of the country—it is an incredible business and export success of which we can all be proud.

I congratulate Nicole Livingstone AO, who was honoured for her distinguished service to sports development administration, to the promotion of women in sport and to community health, as well. I congratulate Professor Jodie McVernon AO, who was honoured for distinguished service to medical research in the field of epidemiology and infection prevention, to tertiary education and to public health.

I congratulate Ms Jennifer Huppert OAM, who was honoured for service to multicultural affairs through a range of community organisations and, of course, to the Jewish community in particular. Of course, I acknowledge her legacy as a former Labor member of state parliament. I congratulate Mr Derek Jones OAM, who was honoured for service to the community of Beaumaris and, in particular, his work for things like graffiti removal and cleaning up our streets. I also give my love to his wife, Elizabeth. I congratulate Mr Simon Marks OAM, who was honoured for his service to youth. I congratulate Ms Anne Shipp OAM, who was honoured for service to nursing, and the late Ms Simone Stevenson OAM, who was honoured for service to industrial relations, particularly to asbestos eradication, which is, of course, an enormously important contribution to public life and to making sure that Australians live safe and healthy lives in the workplace—something that I am sure everybody on both sides of this chamber would support, and I'm glad to see members opposite nodding along. And, of course, I congratulate my good friend Timothy Wildash OAM, who was honoured for his service to the cash management industry, another great success story of a local resident who has established a business that has gone on to significant success by providing pathways. If you've ever been to a pub or to a service station and a bank has fallen short by not providing the services or ATM facilities they might once have, and you see a Next Payments ATM, that might be Timothy Wildash OAM's ATM right there. They also provide a number of other non-cash payment platforms which are available through different formats at things like festivals.

So congratulations to all of them. You do us enormously proud in the Goldstein community. Thank you for your service.