Cameron Caldwell (Fadden, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Housing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Since we were last in parliament we commemorated Anzac Day across Australia. I was very proud to attend some local services: the Northern Gold Coast RSL, who held their dawn service at Helensvale; the TriCare centre at Runaway Bay, who held a service; the Ormeau-Pimpama community service, which is held at the war memorial in the community there; and the Runaway Bay RSL mid-morning service. It was a wonderful time for Australians to reflect on the contribution that's been made by those brave men and women who have given so much in the service of our country.

I was very happy to attend the annual end-of-season presentation for the Runaway Bay Little Athletics club. The club's been around for more than 45 years and it's 100 per cent run by volunteers, which is no easy feat because there's about 450 athletes that are now participating. So, in true athletics fashion, I'm going to run against the clock here and run through the volunteer committee that are so amazing at what they do. Here we go: Rene Doel, Nikki Durre, David Synge, Rebecca Kreuger, Gavin Johnston, Shannon Morrison, Lisa Cebulski, Hayley Plymin, Sean Sandford, Menetta O'Reilly, Kathleen Norman and coming in last, but not least, Paul Molesworth. Thank you to all of the committee who do such a wonderful job in giving the young kids at Runaway Bay Little Athletics such a wonderful opportunity to participate in that great sport.

I recently visited the Jacobs Well Neighbourhood Police Beat. I spent some time there with Senior Constable Zoe and Senior Constable Danielle, who also invited along some members of the wonderful Jacob's Well community, the local publican Mal, some local real estate agents and members of the progress association. It was great to see the heart of our little community there in Jacobs Well paying credit to the wonderful and important work that's done by those two local police officers, Zoe and Danielle. One of the tributes to what they've done is the story of Bailey, who is a dog that was rescued from the waters off Jacobs Well by Zoe when she was out doing a water police patrol. And, in true fashion, that dog has now been adopted by Zoe and is part of the Jacobs Well police beat family. So to all of our wonderful community out in Jacobs Well, a big hello to you from Canberra.

Last week I visited the Assisi Catholic College in Coomera for an important presentation to Jamili, who has been selected as the first ever youth member for Fadden in the National Youth Parliament. It was great to recognise her achievement in having put forward such a compelling case in a competitive field to be selected as that youth member, and I wish her well for the year ahead.