Ringwood electorate workers
Mr HALSE (Ringwood) (09:59): In what might be my last members statement I want to thank the workers of the district of Ringwood and right across Victoria for the work that they have done over the last three years as we have confronted a once-in-100-year global pandemic. I want to thank our transport workers and couriers. I want to thank our food services workers, our retail workers, our supermarket workers and our education workers and teachers. I want to thank our public servants and council workers, our construction workers and builders, our factory workers and farmers, our community services workers and all of course in our emergency services sectors. But a special thanks goes to our aged care, disability care and healthcare workers. They have never given up. They have continued to work to care for people in my district and to care for the most vulnerable in our community. Our nurses, our doctors, our paramedics, our hospital clerks and orderlies, our aged care workers—24/7, 365 days a year—have continued to work, have continued to care for all of us within our community, including my family, who have had the misfortune of being at a public hospital on numerous occasions. So I want to thank those healthcare workers and all the workers across my district for the enormity of the work that they have done.