Victoria State Emergency Service
Pauline RICHARDS (Cranbourne) (09:43): 21 May is the national day of recognition for and to say thank you to our SES volunteers, and I can tell you SES volunteers in Cranbourne are the best of the bunch. I am going to take the opportunity to thank our unit controller Scott Bernhard and our deputy controllers Scott, Bec and Stephen, and I would like to acknowledge our amazing volunteers. To Mandar, Ian and Phillip, thank you. To Craig, Tim, Morgan, Ian, Dave, Nick, Paul, Andrew, Julie and Mitch, you are all amazing. To Ashley, John, Robyn, Anita, Michael, Amiru, VJ, Mikayala, Jordan, Josh and Ben, you are the best in the business. To Victor, Michael, Andrew, Praneel, Isaac, Raj, Francesca, Jake, Ray, Rene, Rhys, Sean, John, Taylor and Yohanes, Cranbourne is very grateful. This year is so exciting because it is also the opportunity to celebrate 50 years of the Victorian SES. The Victorian SES is an amazing service, but in Cranbourne we have a beautiful new centre. It has been so well loved by our volunteers, and I have to say how grateful I am to Brian McMannis for steering us through all that.