Tuesday, 30 August 2022

 Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (13:08): I rise to pay tribute to a great Victorian and a good friend. Jason Ronald OAM recently retired as the president of the Royal Overseas League Victorian branch. I was honoured to attend a significant celebration of his amazing service to this worthy organisation, service that was also rightly recognised by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC, Governor-General of Australia, whose message paid tribute to Jason’s role in helping to foster friendship and understanding between commonwealth countries. Fortunately Jason’s service to ROSL will continue as the Australian chair.

In 2007 Jason was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his extensive community service, including as a life councillor of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. Jason’s OAM cited his service to the community through a range of social welfare, cultural, political—notably the Liberal Party—and agricultural organisations. A great man. Jason and his family before him are renowned for giving generously of their time to their rural communities, for which we are all grateful. I am proud to call Jason a friend and congratulate him on his decades of voluntary service across an array of organisations but especially the Royal Overseas League.