Bert Van Manen (Forde, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I had the honour of attending the recent Ormeau Lions fair, which is one of the great community events in the electorate of Forde. The Ormeau Lions fair is an annual attraction, which locals like to call the 'mini Ekka'. This year's fair attracted some 22,000 visitors and a wide range of stalls, rides and sideshow amusements. As usual, it was a terrific event. The Ormeau Lions, with the support of local businesses, do a wonderful job and the fair is going from strength to strength each year.

We held our own stall there over the weekend, and it was an absolute pleasure to meet a number of constituents and talk about various issues that are concerning them. One particular constituent, Mick Davies, informed me that he was off to attend an awards night for the national GovHack awards. He had won an award for an app that he developed, referred to as Socialtest, in the 'Best use of Queensland Government data' category. Previously, Mick's app had also won an award at the local GovHack awards on the Gold Coast in the category of 'Community Care'. Mick is passionate about start-ups and creating new products from open source government data and I wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

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