Tuesday, 17 March 2026

 Jacinta ERMACORA (Western Victoria) (13:56): This year’s Port Fairy Folk Festival was hugely enjoyable – I did bump into a colleague there – for locals and for tens of thousands of visitors to the south-west. Congratulations to the festival committee and thanks to all the volunteers. There are a lot of community volunteers that participate every single year. I attended one of the future folk sessions, where artists aged between 12 and 25 performed live, some of them for the first time. I am proud that it is our government, through Creative Victoria, that funded these sessions to help support the development of young people in performance, even at an international level.