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

I rise to enthusiastically support the motion put forward by the member for Lalor and commend her contribution and also the member for Bennelong's. I would particularly like to acknowledge the great victory by the Firebirds, as acknowledged by the earlier speakers.

I grew up in country Queensland, in a town called St George—a typical Queensland country town where the boys played footy and cricket and the girls played netball and softball. When I saw my sisters Debbie, Kerry and Megan play netball—sometimes on ant bed courts and dusty courts—not everyone wore shoes where I grew up, but people always played competitively. My sisters have the same imposing height that I have, so they were all centres. That would shock the member for Lalor, I am sure.

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