Dennis Jensen (Tangney, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to acknowledge the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Battle of Britain Day is the name given to 15 September 1940, when the Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attack against London in the hope of drawing out the RAF. It is right that we remember, acknowledge and never forget the sacrifice and bravery of those who fought and endured at the time. Our right to stand in this place of democracy would never have been so if those few men of the RAF had not won that freedom then. Let me, then, reiterate Prime Minister Churchill's words as a fitting marker for this significant anniversary: 'Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.' These are not fictional stories from a foreign land. Indeed, these are some of the old, weathered faces in our communities, like my electorate of Tangney.