Thursday, 14 November 2024

 Harriet SHING (Eastern Victoria – Minister for Housing, Minister for Water, Minister for Equality) (10:12): On the 11th of the 11th every year at 11 am the entire world stops to breathe for a minute and to pay tribute to and recognise the sacrifices made by so many before those guns fell silent in 1918. Around the state I know that many people spent that minute’s silence in contemplation of the losses, the grief, the trauma and the violence of war, and here in the middle of Melbourne it was no different. The bugle that rang out and the silence that followed were profound and meaningful, and it was an opportunity to think about everything that is happening around the state at that moment, to commemorate and to recognise the ultimate sacrifices. Lest we forget.