Steve Georganas (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

St Nicholas in Kingston, right here in the ACT; and also, in my own home state, St George parish in my electorate, where there was an enormous effort to raise funds. I take this opportunity also to congratulate them for contributing towards the skin-grafting machines that are going over to Athens, or have already gone to Athens, for the hospital to treat some of the victims. They're helping to raise funds for Dr John Greenwood, who was South Australia's Australian of the Year and has been doing voluntary work over there to assist the burn victims.

I congratulate in my own parish the ladies auxiliary of the parish of St George for the fantastic work that they do under the secretaryship of Zoi Papafilopoulou, who has been magnificent in ensuring that they continue the fundraising efforts under the auspices of Father Diogenis Patsouris. This has been an absolutely enormous effort by the Archdiocese of Australia to assist people and to raise funds, and this isn't the first time. They continually raise funds for all sorts of victims here in Australia and overseas, and they are continually doing all that they can to assist people in need, people who are perhaps less fortunate than us, people who for whatever reason have gone off the tracks. It's so pleasing to know that we have in our nation groups like this that go the extra step to ensure that we do whatever we can.

This is a very important issue for hundreds of people who lost property and who lost family members and who have relatives and friends here in Australia and Greece.

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