Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, in my electorate of Moreton I have had 5,200 properties impacted, and 1,000 of them are businesses. So there are more than just a thousand people. Some of these businesses, like the Rocklea markets, have 3,000 employees. The suburbs of Chelmer, Graceville, Sherwood, Corinda, Tennyson, Oxley, Yeronga, Rocklea, Fairfield, Moorooka, Coopers Plains, Yeerongpilly, Acacia Ridge and Archerfield were all hit hard, and these suburbs that were hit hard understand how urgent it is that we get this infrastructure levy through.

I would just like to thank a couple of the heroes in my electorate who have done some incredible work. I will not be able to name them all, but some are Graham Hodgson, an Oxley electrician; Melinda McInturff at Yeronga State School respite centre; Patrice Cafferky from Yeronga, who organised some community meetings; Joy Vardy from Yeronga with the welcome home baskets; Moorooka Lions, including Robert Johnson, Damien Meeney and the Acacia Ridge and District Community Centre for some of the Rocklea responses; and the Oxley State School P&C. Trish and Patrice have been very active in getting the response together at the Oxley State School. There is the Campbell family as well. Graceville has been fantastic, particularly the state school P&C. Ian Hall, the principal, Wayne Penning and many others have done some great work in Graceville. Corinda’s Dunlop pool organised community meetings. There is also St David’s at Chelmer, with John Corner at St David’s parish drop-in centre. Karen Simons ran a respite centre at her home in Strong Avenue. Then there is George McLauchlan, my 96-year-old hero in Leybourne Street, Chelmer, and the Oxley community flood relief group.

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