Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On 14 October Bob Brooks, a constituent of mine who lives at Doyalson North, gave his 150th whole blood donation, which is a fantastic achievement. To put this in perspective, this equals a blood donation every 12 weeks for about 38 years. Bob is very dedicated to his local community. He lives in one of the residential parks on the Central Coast. He is a man with a very strong community spirit. The Red Cross, as we all know, always needs blood donations. Each individual blood donation can save up to three lives. Going into the holiday season, it is really important for all Australians to consider making a blood donation, because that donation could save somebody’s life. You could be like Bob Brooks: if you start donating blood now, over the years you could end up giving maybe not 150 but a considerable number of blood donations. I am a regular blood donor, and I know many of the members in this House are regular donors. It is important that we take the message back to our electorates and encourage people to go and give blood.

Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In accordance with standing order 193, the time for constituency statements has concluded.