Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

In the remaining minute of this sitting, I would just like to acknowledge all those across the Gold Coast who are still cleaning up after the storms over Christmas. It was indeed something that was sudden in the community, and I want to acknowledge those organisations like Serving Our People in Mermaid Beach, with whom I went out on New Year's Day to the Nerang Bicentennial Community Centre to hand out some food parcels to help those who had been struck by the storms and had lost the contents of their refrigerators or their freezers. The member for Fadden and I were there helping those constituents, to support those who had lost all of that food that had been spoilt.

My office has also been working very hard to make sure that a number of suburbs in the electorate have been on that disaster recovery list, including Southport, Nerang, Worongary, Merrimac and Mermaid Waters. My heart goes out to all of you. I give my regards to those on the Gold Coast who have been suffering over Christmas with the storms and are still cleaning up trees from their properties. To all those emergency workers who have restored the power as well: thank you so much for your efforts.

House adjourned at 17:00

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