Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Western Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I have always promised that one of the things I will do in my time in this place is love my community, and one of the ways that all of us do that in this place is through the Stronger Communities Program. I have been fortunate to be out in my community, helping organisations receive funding to do things that will make the Perth community even stronger. These include: the Friends of Coolbinia Bushland, who will be restoring some of the bushland that was damaged from a recent fire; Mount Hawthorn Primary School Parents and Citizens, with new instruments for their school band; Sexual Health Quarters in Northbridge, who provide sexual health and domestic violence prevention services, to improve wheelchair access for their facilities; OzHarvest, which is based in my electorate but serves the entirety of the Perth metropolitan area, which will be getting a new forklift to help their volunteers prepare food and get things out the door quicker; Green World Revolution, a new plastic recycling service, to help members of my community recycle plastic; and the Mount Lawley Bowling Club, so terribly treated through the sports rorts affair, which will be getting some new lawn bowls so that more people can participate in this fabulous sport. There are also security cameras for the Mount Lawley Inglewood Roos Junior Football Club, a new couch and feeding chair for the Maylands Playgroup, an oscillating edge sander and welding fume extractor for the Bassendean Men's Shed, new fencing for Cahoots and a new gazebo for Ellis House Community Art Centre.

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