Thursday, 14 November 2024

 Nina TAYLOR (Albert Park) (10:11): With summer pending I wanted to salute the terrific efforts of our surf lifesaving volunteers of the 2023–24 season, considering their patrols are about to kick off again. So for the St Kilda Life Saving Club: Shayan Gunawardena, Simon Lewis, Alexander Aloschi-Hopfner, Andrew Ronaldson, Benjamin Wain and Dr Michael Powderly. For the South Melbourne Life Saving Club: Fintan Collins, Sebastian Collins, Lachlan Hirth, Greg Jones, Silvana Mandile, Alisdair Nolan, Ben O’Mahony and Nick Vouk. Then for the Port Melbourne Life Saving Club – and, I should say, some 200 to 300 hours as well – over-18 members: Tea Passon, Nick Strang, Jessica Monaghan, Joesph Mercieca, Phoebe Browne, Andrew Canet, Katherine Canet, Belinda Gill, Benjamin Gray, Imogen Cooper, Darel Gill, Fiona Cull, Armando Breton, Brett Armstrong, Tara Scott, Joshua Pryor and Malcolm Hyde. And then for under-18 members: Isabelle Wright, Ruby Mercieca, Tom McFarlane, Eloise Barnes, Ruby Webb and Suzy Pollard. I found out yesterday that there is a wonderful Beachsafe app. It means you can look to see where the patrols are on, because we know that if you swim between the flags you are not going to drown. That is the safest place to be when in the water, and we encourage everyone to do that over summer.