Tuesday, 12 August 2025

 Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:57): Last week I went to Glen Waverley Primary School, whose chess club won the prestigious Northern Star primary open zonal chess championship. To celebrate that I challenged the chess club to a game of chess, only to be confronted with 20 simultaneous games of chess to be played, which was frankly exhausting, and without question I got smashed – they smashed me. It was very humbling, but I will be back. I want to congratulate the school. I want to congratulate principal Frank Catalano on what an incredibly talented group of young people he has at the school.