Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's a great honour to continue being the federal representative for Darwin and Palmerston, and I want to thank the Solomon team that worked very long and hard to deliver for and assist the people of Darwin and Palmerston and, of course, the electoral result in May. Firstly, to my family and to my beautiful wife, Kate, thank you so much for all your patience, understanding and guidance and for the great friend to me and the mum you are to Sally and Frank, our beautiful kids. I thank them for coming out to so many events to have fun with dad. You are a wonderful support to me and, by extension, to the people that I represent. To my extended family; to my dad, Johnny G, who's always there; to mum, Chris, for her unconditional love and support; to my brothers and sisters, their partners, their kids and their friends; and to my mates: thank you for being there for me, whether it be for a chat or putting out corflutes or whatever it may be.

To my electorate office team, which includes those that work out of the Canberra office: thank you for keeping us connected with Territorians and with our stakeholders that I serve now and did towards the end of the last parliamentary term as a Special Envoy for Defence, Veterans' Affairs and Northern Australia. I want to recognise and thank my EO team: Zach Cork, who's still in the office working hard right now; Lucy Gunner; Paul Rowston; Emcille Wills; Mitchell Rand; Phil Roberts; Mel Nixon; Mitchell Hearne; Simone Gomez; and Anne McDowell.

I want to recognise and thank campaign director, Shlok Sharma, NT Labor secretary Karlee Dalton, NT ALP president Anthony Venes, all of the national secretary team, the Prime Minister, the Deputy PM and all my ministerial and other colleagues. I thank the shoppies for their support and other unions who supported along the way, but I thank all of the supporters that want to see a better Territory and a better Australia. I want to quickly mention the team Solomon volunteers, including but not limited to: Johnny Cook, Sue Condon, Alf Leonardi, the Costello family, Barry Norton, Monty Montgomery, Laura Rowe, Sheena Dunne, Steve Asher, Jason Craig, Brett and Sean Hagen, Alan Berman, Patty Ring, Tim Nicol, Michael Hylard, Caleb Burke, Rachael Chisholm, Marina Gomaz and the whole Gomez family, Georgie Corrie, Jo Kierboom and her mum, Cathy Spurr, Patrik Ralph, Hemali Seneviratne, Fiona Le, Joel Bowden and family, Jaya Srinivas, Brian Manning, Brett Melzner, Lynne Walker, Feroz Ibriham, Peter O'Hagan, Travis—you know who you are—Scott Beven, Nick Barnard, Emma Darby, Tim Rivett, Catherine Philips, Annie Nankivell, Yolanda Kanyai, Dani Everleigh, Nicole Brown, Debbi Lees, Yasmin Warren, Emma Henke, Chay Keating, Ed Smelt, David Thomas, Kerry Gardiner, Sharon McAnelly, John King, Eve Somssich, Phil Maynard, Vida Goodvach, Michael Bezuidenhout, Tristain Sloan, Brett Edwards, Reuben Hart, Mary Fall, Mark Dodge, Mark Monaghan, Rosa Carrascola, Rajeev Sharma, Victoria Brenton, Will Eddyvane, Matt Shaw, Georgia Maloney, Eddie Peters, Jane Agaard, Karen Walsh, Mitch Dyson, Anna Goode, Brionee Noonan, Raelene Noonan, Tony Sievers, Ngaree Ah Kit, Alyce Mokrzycki, Andrew Fyles, Mel Mayo, Jarryd Evison-Rose, Petea Stark, Clare Martin, Jane Gunner, Martin Riley, Damien Hale, Lon Wallis, Egas Alves, Domingos da Silva, Cat Moriarty, Bes, Jenny Anderson, Teresa Fauser, Kailaki Haloti, Andrea Moriarty, Libiane Dos Santos, Ines, Rego, Christine Palmer, Tony Viegas, Alice Casmiro and me old mate Snow. Thank you.

House adjourned at 20 : 00