Annette Ellis (Canberra, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I had the pleasure yesterday of attending an annual luncheon at the Canberra Southern Cross Club at Woden. The Canberra Southern Cross Club is one of our larger clubs in the ACT. It holds an annual luncheon where it distributes funds. It distributes funds to scores of organisations around our community, from the Old Narrabundah Community Council through to palliative care and all sorts of organisations doing great work in our community here in Canberra who need money to continue their work. Some of those cheques are small and some are large. The overall theme of yesterday’s luncheon was to see, yet again, the Canberra Southern Cross Club put a lot of money back into very good community work. Over the years it has distributed quite a few dollars, numbering into the millions in an aggregate way according to yesterday’s figures. So it was indeed a pleasure for me to be there at the lunch to congratulate the Southern Cross Club for its community minded approach and to have an opportunity to see the many wonderful organisations doing good work in our community and supporting people around them with the help of, amongst others, people from the Canberra Southern Cross Club.

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