Thursday, 18 May 2023

National Volunteer Week

Harriet SHING (Eastern Victoria – Minister for Water, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Commonwealth Games Legacy, Minister for Equality) (09:56): I rise today to congratulate and thank and acknowledge all of the volunteers across Victoria but particularly in the Eastern Victoria Region. This week is National Volunteer Week and the theme is ‘the change makers’. Right across the Eastern Victoria Region we see this every day in so many ways. We see it in times of greatest need: during droughts and bushfires, during flooding and storms. We also see it in times of great celebration, bringing our communities together, marshalling traffic, making scones, making sure that kids can be involved, and in everything from Clean Up Australia Day right through to tin rattlers and people who help our community groups to be their best. So to the carers, to the guardians, to the people who lend their time to help bring people together, thank you. To the wood-turners, to the people who hand out information at fetes, to the people who marshal at our country cricket and footy matches, thank you. To the people who are involved every day in so many ways to make our communities the best that they can be: you volunteers are the best of us. Thank you so much for all that you do, and happy volunteer week.