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

Yesterday I attended the Redhead Surf Lifesaving Club presentation. Redhead is one of the largest surf clubs in the Shortland electorate. It has 804 members, 337 juniors and a very impressive 21 cadets. This assures their future. It has a big job at Redhead Beach; it is probably the most dangerous beach in the electorate, and Redhead surf club certainly rises to every occasion.

The club has undertaken 16 rescues, 479 preventive actions and 65 first aid events and has had to close the beach 44 times this season. That shows just how dangerous the beach is. It has performed 4,144 patrol hours, and that is valued at $82,800 in volunteer hours to the local community. It is one of the strongest clubs on the beach. It competed at both the Australian titles and the national titles. I believe it is the ninth strongest club in the branch. They had two clubs in the top 10 at the state championship and were very impressive. The branch has 10 clubs. (Time expired)