Eric Hutchinson (Lyons, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to congratulate a farming family in my electorate, Rowan and Anna Clark, from Rupertswood, near Hagley, in the Meander Valley, in northern Tasmania. They have found a novel way of showing off their skills. For the past two years they have developed a crop maze in a five-hectare paddock on their farm. This year, in a sorghum crop, they have used the design of the poppy from Flanders Fields. It is a very significant gesture, this being the Centenary of Anzac. Last year they used an iconic Tasmanian symbol, the Thylacine, and more than 2,000 visitors came to see the maze.

Having driven past the property last Monday, the public holiday, I reckon there might have been 2,000 people there then. So clearly it has captured the imagination of many people. There is a smaller maze there for young kids who do not want to get lost in the eight-foot-high sorghum. They used GPS technology to cut the maze into the sorghum crop. It is a wonderful thing and I congratulate them.