Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to congratulate the students, teachers and parents of Yugumbir State School in Regents Park in my electorate. They held an assembly last week which was for their We Read Every Night, or WREN, program. There were 1,200 kids there and a couple of hundred parents talking about how important it is to get reading as early as possible. It was a tremendous event and very well attended. There was lots of commitment from the parents and lots of commitment from the students. They brought along their favourite books. They did some public readings. It was really an excellent demonstration of the sort of spirit that exists in the schools in my electorate.