Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I want to congratulate everyone involved in this year’s Mitchell Youth Leadership Forum, which was successfully held last weekend in my electorate. The Mitchell Youth Leadership Forum has been running for eight years, since 2002, at Vision Valley in Arcadia. It is the vision of my predecessor, Alan Cadman, who did a great job in putting together what has remained a lasting legacy to his skill and vision. This year we had 123 year 11 students from 15 schools, 32 small group leaders and eight activities leaders—and, of course, all of the committee attended after a year of hard work in putting together a great forum. The speakers offered great experience and motivation to the participants in the forum. The speakers were Glen Gerryn, Bernie Quinn, Mary-Ruth Mendel, Matthew Campbell and Brett Murray. I thank all the committee members for their hard work and effort at the meetings that we hold year round in order to get this forum together. The committee members are Ronie Quinn, Bernie Quinn, Matt Beard, Mark Hohnen, Terry Swan, Steve Edwards, Alain Vella, Roberta Bell and Matt Puleo. They all do a fine and fantastic job for the youth in Mitchell.

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