Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to applaud the Coomera State Primary School, which ran the eighth annual film festival for Australian primary schools, called Dream a Better World, on Sunday, 16 November. Each year Universal Children’s Day is observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children, with activities designed to promote the welfare of the world’s children. In establishing the film festival, the Coomera State Primary School also had the opportunity to speak out and communicate their ideas and dreams about the world across a range of film genres. This project challenges students across Queensland to be socially aware and proactive in visualising a better world. It enhances self-confidence, and develops skills in drama, storytelling, interviewing and public speaking, along with technical elements of filmmaking. These are primary school students from around the state who put together an amazing array of different films—from animated through to dramatic through to really quite funny. I applaud all of the winners; I applaud Coomera State Primary School, which is the oldest school in the Coomera area—more than 135 years old—for having the vision to put on a film festival for young students.

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