Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I must say that this has been quite a big week, to say the least. It's also safe to say that good things come in twos. This week marks the second budget that's been delivered by the Treasurer and the Albanese Labor government. This week also marks the second school tour from my electorate of Spence that I have had the pleasure of meeting here in Parliament House. It was a privilege to meet these year 6 students from Immanuel Lutheran School who have come all the way from Gawler. I visited their school back in late November last year, representing the Minister for Education, to tour their facilities and officially open four new classrooms. I'm glad such a large group of students from Immanuel Lutheran School got the opportunity to visit me here during a sitting week to observe how we, as their elected representatives, work for them in our nation's capital.

I also got to see some of the great work that the Parliamentary Education Office does by observing how they facilitated a mock debate with the students a few hours ago. I must say that I think some of them, despite being in year 6, could certainly give a number of us here a run for our money. The quality of the debate can be attributed in no small part to their teachers and in particular those I got to meet up here a short while ago, Angie Eckermann and Jared Semmler, who put in many long hours to make this trip possible.

Finally, I'd like to say to my beautiful mother, Julie: happy Mother's Day this weekend on Sunday. To all the mothers out there: I hope you have a fantastic day.

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