Friday, 14 November 2025

 Brad ROWSWELL (Sandringham) (10:22): I rise today to recount to the house a situation that recently occurred in my community. Fairway Bayside Aged Care was established in my community in 1995, and since then it has quite literally helped hundreds, verging on thousands, of local residents who need aged care assistance. Just a few weeks ago there was some dumbo that came along and stole bikes used by some of the residents and used in the course of disability care. Through some information that was provided to my office, which I then forwarded to Victoria Police, three of the four bikes have now been recovered, which is a great thing, together with the help of Bayside council, who provided transport in the circumstance. Those three bikes are damaged, but they have been recovered; one has not been recovered. I am pleased to inform the house that together – with community effort from Bayside City Council; Bendigo Bank, Sandringham, especially Cait and Matt; and Neighbourhood Watch Bayside’s Phil Lovel – we are combining to upgrade these bikes and to provide Fairway hostel with a fourth bike. This is the right thing to do. I will even make a personal contribution of $1000 to the cause, because it is the right thing to do.