Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Point Cook electorate multicultural communities

Mathew HILAKARI (Point Cook) (10:42): What a wonderful time of celebration across our community recently, with Holi, Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr and Easter all coinciding. Weren’t we egg-cited to join Point Cook Football Club and every community member that made the first Point Cook community Easter egg hunt possible? There were over 600 kids registered. It was an egg-cellent event. The kids were all ears in listening and following instructions. They hopped about and they collected 7000 eggs in about 20 seconds. Could I say they only got a little bit of eggs-ercise? They burrowed their chocolates away in their baskets, and they bounced off for an egg-cellent holiday weekend.

Additionally I was honoured to join the community for Eid celebrations in Point Cook. I would like to thank president Zakir Hussain and Hasan Naim for their hospitality at the United Muslim Residents Association Eid al-Fitr. I would also like to thank the general secretary of Minhaj-ul-Quran Victoria, Syed and Imran Khan as well for their invitation to their annual Eid festival. They do enormous work across the community.

Finally I would like to wish a happy Holi to those who celebrated at Western Gymkhana with Sudhir Juneja, Gaurav Malholtra, Kapil Thaker, Maulshri Agrawal, Nasz Khan, Neha Kolape, Reena Anita Raina and so many others who brought it all together.