Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) acknowledges that Western Australia's Italian community celebrated 'Festa della Repubblica' or Italian Republic Day on 2 June 2021;

(b) notes that Italian Republic Day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946, in which the Italian people voted to become a republic following the end of World War II and the fall of Fascism;

(c) recognises the significant contribution members of the Italian community have made to the state of Western Australia; and

(d) further notes that:

(i) since the Australian Census of 1911, the Western Australian Italian community has expanded from approximately 2,300 to more than 120,000, and

(ii) the WA Italian Club Inc was established in 1934 to support Italian migrants starting a new life in Western Australia and has since become a cultural institution for residents of Italian heritage.

Question agreed to.