Thursday, 24 September 2026

 David LIMBRICK (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (10:16): Firstly, I would like to thank my wonderful family for all of their support over the last few years: my wife Etsuko and my three sons Sen, Kai and Nao. Politics is very hard on families, as everyone here would know. I am sorry I have not been there as much as I wanted to be, and it is probably only going to get worse over the next few months, so I apologise in advance. But without your support and caring, I could not do anything in here, so thank you very much. I would also like to thank my wonderful staff, who for many years have been a great support: Gavin, Ash, James, Beth, Ryan and Chloe. I could not ask to work with a more loyal, dedicated, smart and funny team. In fact one of the greatest things about working here is having such a great team. I am very blessed to be able to work with these people. I hope to be re-elected, but if I am not, actually my biggest regret or my biggest fear is not being able to work with these great people. So I hope that, whatever happens, we will be able to work together in the future. Thank you to my staff for everything that you do.