Thursday, 24 September 2026

 Moira DEEMING (Western Metropolitan) (10:12): I would also like to join my colleagues here in giving thanks to all of the parliamentary staff, the clerks and Hansard for everything that they have done to make all of our experiences here so much easier. It is just such an honour and a privilege and a huge responsibility to be part of making the laws that other people have to live under. When you are back out in your communities, you see the consequences can be so grave or so exciting or so uplifting on little people’s lives that do not get into the news – coming from someone who has been in the news far too much and more than I have enjoyed. It is just a really important job, and it has been an honour to be here to do it. Again, we do not know who is going to get elected and who is not, but I have been here fighting for families – for my family and for everybody else’s families – and I know that that is really why anybody does anything. I love it, and I look forward to fighting for families again next time.