Craig Laundy (Reid, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I had the opportunity last week to attend Santa Sabina College at Strathfield. It is a special school because I am an old boy of that school, as are my brother and two sisters—not that I think they would have me on their front web page advertising that fact! But I attended to present a flag and congratulate them on a wonderful local initiative. They have put together a choir of 26 students, parents and teachers, and from 18 September to 1 October they will head to Italy, the home of Nola Marino's family, for half a dozen performances, culminating in a final appearance at the Vatican, which for a Catholic college like Santa Sabina holds obvious special place.

The list of surnames is far too long for me to go through, but I would like to wish Katherine, Sabina, Antoinette, Sophie, Claire, Courtney, Georgia, Jessie, Dominique, Anna-Rosa, Isabella, Angela, Linda, Natalie, Charlotte, Juliet, Mariahna, Michelle, Sara, Isabella, Sally, Marcella, Maria, Ellen, Sarah and Kristina not only safe travels but great performances. To Marie Hewett and the team at Santa Sabina: it makes me very proud as an old boy in a family that has been intertwined with your school's history to see you take such great initiatives, giving these girls such an amazing opportunity and allowing them to share it with their parents and their teachers.

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