Thursday, 30 November 2023

Felicitations

Harriet SHING (Eastern Victoria – Minister for Housing, Minister for Water, Minister for Equality) (10:20): I want to highlight the tireless work of people around the parliamentary precinct with the time I have available today. Every year there are countless people, teams and organisations that galvanise to make sure that the Parliament functions in the best possible way. Putting to one side the contributions that we make in this place, over which those organisations, teams and individuals have no control, I want to give a shout-out to people who are so important to this institution. To the clerks, the attendants, Hansard, security, our PSOs, the people who make and keep the grounds and the precinct so accessible and so beautiful, thank you. To everybody who is working on the ongoing construction in and around the parliamentary precinct, thank you. And to Hansard, thank you so much for all of your indulgence with my obsession with the Oxford comma and the patience that you show with sentences that go on for many pages. I appreciate you enormously.